risque

common nounverb

Syllable Decomposition

risque

from Italian risco, attested from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, becoming rischio in modern Italian and derived from Latin resecum ("what cuts", then "steep rock, reef" then "risk incurred by goods transported by boat") derived from resecare ("to cut").

Definitions

économie

Antonyms

Plural

risques

Translations

  • germangerman:Wagnis
  • englishenglish:venture
  • danishdanish:risiko
  • spanishspanish:riesgo
  • italianitalian:rischio
  • dutchdutch:waagstuk
  • portugueseportuguese:risco
  • swedishswedish:risk

See also

multirisque (adj.) risqué (adj.) risque (v.) risquer (v.) risqueur (cn.) risquable (adj.) risques (v.)