remise

See also: Remise and remisé

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).

Verb

remise (third-person singular simple present remises, present participle remising, simple past and past participle remised)

1. (transitive) To send or give back.
2. To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.

Noun

remise (plural remises)

1. (obsolete, law) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc. [15th–19th c.]

Etymology 2

From French remise.

Noun

remise (plural remises)

1. (now historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. [from 17th c.]
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […] .

2. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     [H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.

3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm. [from 19th c.]
4. (music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

See also

• remiss

Anagrams

• Meiser, Siemer, Eimers, Meiers, misère, misree

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛmɪsɛ]

Noun

remise f

1. (medicine) remission

Declension

Declension of remise (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	remise	remise
genitive	remise	remisí
dative	remisi	remisím
accusative	remisi	remise
vocative	remise	remise
locative	remisi	remisích
instrumental	remisí	remisemi

Related terms

• See mise

See also

• relaps

Further reading

• “remise”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “remise”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

remise f (plural remises, diminutive remisetje n)

1. carriage house
2. public transport depot
3. (chess) a tie, draw

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.miz/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

From the verb remettre. Compare mise.

Participle

remise f sg

1. feminine singular of remis

Noun

remise f (plural remises)

1. delivery, handing over; handover
2. remission; reduction
3. discount, reduction
4. shed, carriage house
5. deferment, postponement

Etymology 2

From the verb remiser.

Verb

remise

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• merise, misère

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈmise/ [reˈmi.se]
• Rhymes: -ise
• Syllabification: re‧mi‧se

Noun

remise m (plural remises)

1. (Argentina) taxi, taxicab

   Synonym: taxi