frieze

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• /ˈfɹiːz/
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• rhymes with -iːz
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• homophone: frees
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• homophone: freeze
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• CMU ARPABET: F R IY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably a spelling variant of Fries and Frees.

Late Middle English, from French and Middle French frise, probably from Medieval Latin Frisia (“Frisian (wool)”) due to import via Northern ships. Or, from French friser (“to curl”)..

From French and Middle French frise f, derived from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, frigium, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus Phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “work of Phrygia”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term above in a transferred sense.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: аба (aba) — kind of coarse cloth
• Bulgarian: шаяк (šajak) — kind of coarse cloth
• Finnish: friisi — kind of coarse cloth
• Finnish: friisikangas — kind of coarse cloth
• French: frise — kind of coarse cloth
• French: bure — kind of coarse cloth
• German: Fries — kind of coarse cloth
• German: Friese — kind of coarse cloth
• Italian: rascia — kind of coarse cloth
• Macedonian: ша́јак (šájak) — kind of coarse cloth
• Macedonian: а́ба (ába) — kind of coarse cloth
• Polish: fryza — kind of coarse cloth
• Portuguese: baeta — kind of coarse cloth
• Russian: бо́брик (bóbrik) — kind of coarse cloth
• Swedish: fris — kind of coarse cloth
• Albanian: frizë — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Arabic: إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Armenian: ծոփոր (copʻor) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Armenian: ֆրիզ (friz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Azerbaijani: friz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Basque: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Belarusian: фрыз (fryz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Bulgarian: фриз (friz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Catalan: fris — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰線 /腰线 (yāoxiàn) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Czech: vlys — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Danish: frise — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Dutch: fries — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Esperanto: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Estonian: friis — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Finnish: friisi — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• French: frise — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Galician: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Georgian: ფრიზი (prizi) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• German: Fries — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Greek: ζωφόρος (zofóros) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Hebrew: אפריז (efríz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Hungarian: fríz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Ido: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Italian: fregio — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Japanese: フリーズ (furīzu) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Korean: 프리즈 (peurijeu) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Latin: zoophorus — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Latvian: frīze — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Lithuanian: frizas — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Macedonian: фриз (friz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Norwegian Bokmål: frise — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Persian: حاشیه زینتی (hâshiye zînye) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Polish: fryz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Portuguese: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Romanian: friză — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Russian: фриз (friz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Serbo-Croatian: фриз — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Serbo-Croatian: friz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Slovak: vlys — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Slovene: friz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Spanish: friso — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Swedish: fris — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Turkish: friz — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Ukrainian: фриз (fryz) — architecture: space between architrave and cornice
• Bulgarian: фриз (friz) — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Catalan: fris — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Finnish: friisi — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• French: frise — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• German: Fries — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Greek: ζωοφόρος (zoofóros) — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Italian: fregio — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Polish: fryz — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Russian: фриз (friz) — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Russian: бордю́р (bordjúr) — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Spanish: friso — sculptured or richly ornamented band
• Turkish: friz — sculptured or richly ornamented band