guise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɪz/

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• Homophone: guys
• Rhymes: -aɪz

Etymology 1

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.

Etymology 2

Anagrams

• Segui, egusi

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French guise, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“wise, way, fashion, custom, habit, manner”). More at wise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiz/

Noun

guise f (plural guises)

1. way

   le faire à ma guise ― do it my way

   Je l’ai laissé chanter à sa guise. ― I let him sing his way.

   en guise de ― by way of, as

Further reading

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

Verb

guise

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Noun

guise f

1. plural of guisa

Anagrams

• segui, seguì

Noun

guise oblique singular, f (oblique plural guises, nominative singular guise, nominative plural guises)

1. way; manner
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Biaus sire, quant vos an tel guise
     An blanc chainse et an sa chemise
     Ma cosine an volez mener,
     Un autre don li vuel doner

     Good sir, when you in such a way
     In a white tunic and in her shirt
     Want to take my cousin
     I want to give her another gift

References

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

Verb

guise

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Verb

guise

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative