Where does “frieze” come from?
Frieze comes from Middle French frise, from French friser, from Old Frisian frisle, from Arabic إِفْرِيز, from Classical Syriac ܦܪܝܙܘܡܐ, from Ancient Greek περίζωμα.
frieze (English): A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a...
Definitions
- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a...
Ancestry of “frieze”, step by step
frieze traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French frise
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | frise | — |
| 2 | Italian | fris | — |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | frisum | — |
| 4 | Latin | frigium | — |
| 5 | Arabic | إِفْرِيز | king beam, cornice |
| 6 | Classical Syriac | ܦܪܝܙܘܡܐ | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | περίζωμα | A loincloth worn around the waist |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | περῐ- | around; very; round about |
| 9 | New Latin | helium | helium |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἥλιος | sun |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | τύπος | A blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | τύπτω | to beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewp- | to push, to stick |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tew- | to push, to hit |