Lis in Scrabble Dictionary

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You can make 4 words from 'lis' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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3 letters words from 'lis'

LIS 3

2 letters words from 'lis'

IS 2	LI 2
SI 2

Definitions and meaning of lis

lis

Etymology 1

Noun

lis (plural lisses)

1. (heraldry) fleur-de-lis
   • 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, ABC of Heraldry (page 175)

     […] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle.

Etymology 2

Noun

lis

1. plural of li

Anagrams

• ILS, ILs, ISL, LSI, SIL, SLI, Sil, sil

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

Etymology 1

From a South Slavic language, compare Ikavian Serbo-Croatian lȉs (“coffin; (dial.) lumber, wood(s), forest”), Old Church Slavonic лѣсъ (lěsŭ, “wood(s), forest”), and Bulgarian лес (les, “forest”); ultimately from Proto-Slavic *lěsъ (“tree, forest”). Alternatively, a formation related to lëndë, similar to the connection of vis with vend.

Noun

lis m (indefinite plural lisa, definite singular lisi, definite plural lisat)

1. English oak (Quercus robur)
2. tall tree
3. (genealogy) lineage

Hypernyms

• dushk

Hyponyms

• plants:
  • lis i bardhë (“Turkey oak”) (Quercus cerris)
  • lis bujk (“Macedonian oak”)(Quercus trojana)
  • lis i butë (“downy oak”) (Quercus pubescens)
  • lis i egër (“holly”) (Ilex spp.)
• lineage:
  • lis i gjakut (“patrilineal descendants”)
  • lis i gjinisë (“matrilineal descendants”)

Coordinate terms

• bung, ilqe, qarr, shpardh

References

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *leitšja, from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to pour”). Cognate with Latin libare (“to pour, to libate”), Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿 (leiþu, “fruit wine”).

Verb

lis (first-person singular past tense lysa, participle lysur)

1. to pour

Derived terms

• lise

Related terms

• lot

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Catalan

Noun

lis m (plural lisos)

1. Sprekelia formosissima (Jacobean lily)

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Czech

Noun

lis m

1. press, machine press

Declension

Synonyms

• pres

Related terms

• lisovat

Further reading

• lis in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lis in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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French

Etymology 1

From Latin lilium

Alternative forms

• lys

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/
• Homophones: lice, lices, lisse, lissent, lisses, lys

Noun

lis m (plural lis)

1. lily

Etymology 2

Inflected forms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li/

Verb

lis

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

Anagrams

• ils, s'il

Further reading

• “lis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin illas, accusative feminine plural of illae.

Article

lis f pl (singular la)

1. the

See also

• i

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French liste (“list”).

Noun

lis

1. list

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin stlīs, from Proto-Italic *slī-ti- (“accusation, dispute”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH-, related to Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liːs/, [lʲiːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lis/

Noun

līs f (genitive lītis); third declension

1. lawsuit, action
2. contention, strife, quarrel

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• lītigō

Descendants

• Italian: lite
• Portuguese: lide
• Spanish: lid

See also

• causa
• crīmen
• quaestiō
• rēs

References

• lis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲɪs̪]

Verb

lìs

1. third-person singular future of lyti
2. third-person plural future of lyti

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lisъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʲis/

Noun

lis m anim (diminutive lisek, augmentative lisisko, feminine lisica)

1. fox (Vulpini, especially the genus Vulpes)
2. (colloquial) fox fur

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

lis m pers

1. (colloquial) A clever or cunning person; fox.

Declension

Further reading

• lis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Noun

lis f (plural lises)

1. Synonym of lirio
2. Synonym of flor de lis

Source: wiktionary.org

• a heraldic fleur-de-lis.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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