Noun: fronce
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | fronce |
| Plural f | fronces |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like fronce
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, fronche (“frown, wrinkles, small creases in cloth”), from Frankish *hrunkwiju (“wrinkle, rumple”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwijō, *hrunkwǭ (“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. See: German Nouns '
Runzel', Old Norse Nouns '
hrukka', Icelandic Nouns '
hrukka'.
Verbs referencing "fronce"
English Nouns
wrinkle.
Translations