verb/pʁi.ze/
to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)
Verbalization of prise, itself a deverbalization of prise, the feminine past participle of prendre (“to take”).
/pʁi.ze/
to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)
Verbalization of prise, itself a deverbalization of prise, the feminine past participle of prendre (“to take”).
to price (fix a price according to market forces); to prize (consider something valuable)
Inherited from Late Latin pretiāre, pretiō (“to appraise”), from Latin pretium (“price”). Unrelated to pris, the past participle of prendre, although it might be remotivated in that way by contemporary French speakers.