reprise

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz
• The music and fencing meanings are pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/, reflecting its French origins; the everyday meaning of a recurrence of an action is often pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/, by similarity to words like rise and prise.

• Regardless of noun pronunciation, the verb form is typically pronounced /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/ in most dialects.

reprise (plural reprises)

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     Your care about your banks infers a fear
     Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
     If so, a just reprise would only be
     Of what the land usurped upon the sea

5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes[1]
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.

2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.

   The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161:

     The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.

3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

• (repeat an action): repeat; see also Thesaurus:reiterate
• (recompense): compensate, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse

• reprehend
• reprieve
• reprisal

• reprisal

• “reprise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• perries, respire

Borrowed from the French reprise.

• IPA^(key): /rəˈpriː.zə/

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• Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se
• Rhymes: -iːzə

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. A repeat, resumption.

   Synonyms: herhaling, herneming

From the feminine of repris.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pʁiz/

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reprise f (plural reprises)

1. a time, instance

   Synonym: fois

   à plusieurs reprises

   many times

   champion à six reprises

   six-time champion

2. (sports) a second-half kick-off
3. (music) a reprise
4. (music) a cover, cover version
5. (television) a repeat, rerun
6. (boxing) a round
   • 2020 December 13, rfi, Boxe: Joshua met KO Pulev et reste champion du monde des lourds‎:

     Le boxeur britannique Anthony Joshua a battu ce samedi 12 décembre à Londres, le Bulgare Kubrat Pulev, par KO à la 9^e reprise.

     The British boxer Anthony Joshua beat the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev by KO during the 9th round this saturday the 12th of december in London.

• à maintes reprises
• reprise de volée

reprise f sg

1. feminine singular of repris

   Cette information a été reprise par les principaux canaux médiatiques.

   This information was repeated by the main media outlets.

• “reprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pierres, prières, respire, respiré

• Hyphenation: re‧pri‧se

Borrowed from French reprise.

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. (Brazil) rerun (a re-airing of a TV program)

   Synonym: reposição

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

reprise

1. (Brazil) inflection of reprisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative