fronce

Inherited from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, fronche (“frown, wrinkles, small creases in cloth”), from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle, rumple”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”) (German Runzel (“wrinkle”)), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”), Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”) (Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”)). More at ruck.

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃s/

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fronce f (plural fronces)

1. a frown; scowl

fronce

1. inflection of froncer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• foncer

fronce

1. Alternative form of frounce

Inherited from Old French fronce, from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

fronce f (plural fronces)

1. crease; wrinkle (usually in clothes)

• French: fronce
• → Middle English: frounce, ffrownce, fronce, frownce
  • English: frounce

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fronce, supplement)

• fronche, frunce, frunche

Borrowed from Frankish *hrunkiju (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

fronce f (oblique plural fronces, nominative singular fronce, nominative plural fronces)

1. wrinkle (of the skin)

• fronchal

• Middle French: fronce
  • French: fronce
  • → Middle English: frounce, ffrownce, fronce, frownce
    • English: frounce

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fronce)