Noun: grimace
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | grimace |
| Plural f | grimaces |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like grimace
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 grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche (“a contorted or wry face, grotesque countenance”), from grime (“mask”) + -ace (pejorative suffix; from Latin -āceus), from Old Frankish *grīma, *grīmo (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet, cover, night”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey- (“to strip, paint, smear”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grime (“mask”), Old Saxon grīma (“mask”), Old English grīma (“mask”), Old Norse gríma (“mask, helmet, night”). More at grime. See: Latin Nouns '
-āceus', Old English Nouns '
grīma', Old Norse Nouns '
gríma'.
Verbs referencing "grimace"
English Nouns
grimace, German Nouns
Grimasse, Swedish Nouns
grimas, Russian Nouns
гримаса, Ukrainian Nouns
гримаса, Danish Nouns
grimasse, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
grimase, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
grimase, Polish Nouns
grymas, Hungarian Nouns
grimasz.
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