risque
common nounverb
Syllable Decomposition
risquefrom Italian risco, attested from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, which became rischio in modern Italian and derived from Latin resecum ('what cuts', then 'steep rock, reef' then 'risk incurred by a good transported by ship') derived from resecare ('to cut').
Definitions
See also
risque (cn.) risques (v.)