glisser

From Middle French glisser, from Old French glicier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from a merger of Old French glacier (“to slip, slide”) and Old French gliier, glier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from Frankish *glīdan (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną (“to glide, slide”). More at glide.

• IPA^(key): /ɡli.se/

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glisser

1. (intransitive) to slip, to slide, to skid

   se glisser dans ses vêtements ― to slip into one's clothes

   Des erreurs peuvent s’être glissées. ― Some mistakes could have slipped in.

2. (intransitive) to glide
3. (music) to slide

• glissade
• glissant

• → Italian: glissare
• → Portuguese: glissar
• → Romanian: glisa

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