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3 letters words from 'dis'

DIS 4IDS 4

2 letters words from 'dis'

DI 3ID 3
IS 2SI 2

All 3 letters words made out of dis

dis ids dsi sdi isd sid

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Definitions and meaning of dis

dis

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of disrespect.

Verb

dis (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)

  1. (informal) Alternative spelling of diss
Translations

Noun

dis (plural disses)

  1. Alternative form of diss
Translations

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís.

Noun

dis (plural disir)

  2. (Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
    • In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.
    • A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir
    • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 67)
      Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.

Etymology 3

Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation of this.

Alternative forms

  • 'dis

Determiner

dis

  1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

Pronoun

dis

  1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

Anagrams

  • DSI, I.D.s, IDS, IDs, ISD, SDI, SID, Sid, ids, sid, sid'

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • 'is (Cape Afrikaans)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dəs/

Contraction

dis

  1. Contraction of dit is (this's, that's, it's)

Derived terms

  • dissie

Cimbrian

Pronoun

dis

  1. (Sette Comuni) Alternative form of ditzan

References

  • “dis” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo, 1974

Danish

Etymology

From Low German dis.

Noun

dis

  1. (light) mist or haze

Verb

dis

  1. imperative of disse

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • disch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch disch, from Old Dutch disk, from Proto-Germanic *diskuz (“table; dish; bowl”), from Latin discus. Cognate with English dish and German Tisch (“table”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪs/
  • Hyphenation: dis
  • Rhymes: -ɪs
  • Homophone: diss

Noun

dis m (plural dissen, diminutive disje n)

  1. (dated) table
    Synonyms: tafel, berd
  2. (rare) meal, dish

Derived terms

  • bruiloftsdis
  • dismeester
  • feestdis
  • opdissen

Finnish

Etymology

From German Dis (German key notation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdis/, [ˈdis̠]
  • Rhymes: -is
  • Syllabification: dis

Noun

dis

  1. (music) D-sharp

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di/

Verb

dis

  1. inflection of dire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second-person singular past historic
    3. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Verb

dis

  1. second-person singular present indicative of dicir

German

Pronoun

dis

  1. Obsolete spelling of dies

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Numeral

dis

  1. ten

Ladin

Noun

dis

  1. plural of dì

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /diːs/, [d̪iːs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis/, [d̪is]

Etymology 1

Contracted form of dīves.

Adjective

dīs (genitive dītis, comparative dītior, superlative dītissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. rich, wealthy
Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of deus (“god”).

Noun

dīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of deus

References

  • dis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
  • dis in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
  • dis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
  • dis in William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray, 1848

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology 1

From French dix (“ten”).

Numeral

dis

  1. ten

Etymology 2

From French dire (“to tell”), compare Haitian Creole di.

Verb

dis

  1. to tell

References

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Numeral

dis

  1. ten

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

dis

  1. Alternative form of þis

Etymology 2

Noun

dis (plural dis or dises)

  1. Alternative form of dees (“die”)

Noun

dis

  1. Alternative form of dees: plural of dee (“die”)

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English this.

Determiner

dis

  1. this

Norman

Verb

dis

  1. first-person singular preterite of dithe

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtiːs/

Pronoun

dīs

  1. locative of dii

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Low German dis

Noun

dis m (definite singular disen)

  1. haze

Related terms

  • disig

References

  • “dis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Low German dis.

Noun

dis m (definite singular disen, uncountable)

  1. haze
Related terms
  • disen
  • disig

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís f, form Proto-Germanic *dīsiz (“(demi-)goddess; virgin”)

Noun

dis f (definite singular disa, indefinite plural diser, definite plural disene)

  2. (Norse mythology) dis

Etymology 3

From De (“you (formal singular)”) modelled after the adjective dus.

Adjective

dis (singular and plural dis)

  1. (about interpersonal relationships) having formal distance
  2. (originally historically, formal) being on terms where one may address each other with the formal 2nd person singular pronoun De, as opposed to the more formal du.
Antonyms
  • dus

References

  • “dis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin decem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis/

Numeral

dis

  1. ten
Descendants
  • French: dix
  • Norman: dgix, dix
  • Walloon: dijh

Etymology 2

From the verb dire

Verb

dis

  1. inflection of dire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular present imperative

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis/

Noun

dis n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) D sharp

Swedish

Etymology

From Low German dis (“haze”), of West Germanic origin (compare Dutch dijs (“mist, fog”), West Frisian diish), of uncertain origin; possibly from Middle Low German dûnster, from Old Saxon *thinstar, from Proto-West Germanic *þimstr (“dusky, dark”). If so, related to modern Dutch deemster (“twilight”).

Noun

dis n (uncountable)

  1. haze; a thin fog
  2. indefinite genitive singular of di

Declension

Synonyms

  • dimslöja

Related terms

  • disig

References

Anagrams

  • sid

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English dish.

Noun

dis

  1. dish; bowl

Volapük

Preposition

dis

  1. under

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle English dees

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːs/

Noun

dis m or f (plural disiau or disau)

  1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org
  • to disparage.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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