patrice
French, noun/pa.tʁis/
patrice is spelled P-A-T-R-I-C-E (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patrice is a French masculine noun meaning “patrician” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui était revêtu d’une dignité instituée dans l’empire romain par Constantin”.
What does patrice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepatrician
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui était revêtu d’une dignité instituée dans l’empire romain par Constantin. 2. Dignitaire, patron.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of patrice
- patrices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce patrice?
- /pa.tʁis/
- \pa.tʁis\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to patrice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is patrice in French?
patrice appears 8.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).