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lis

Translingual

Symbol

lis

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lisu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lisu terms

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lis (plural lisses)

1. (heraldry) Fleur-de-lis.

Etymology 2

Noun

lis

1. plural of li

Etymology 3

From Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”).

Noun

lis

1. (law) The substance of a legal dispute.

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch list, from Middle Dutch list, from Old Dutch list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləs/

Noun

lis (plural liste)

1. A ruse, a trick, a cunning plan.

Derived terms

• listig

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

Etymology 1

Most likely a formation after lëndë (“timber”), similarly to the connection of vis with vend. Alternatively, Orel suggests a borrowing from Proto-Slavic *lěsъ (“forest, woods”), whence Serbo-Croatian lȇs / ле̑с, Bulgarian лес (les), although in this case one would expect the auslaut to have undergone palatalization. Because of the /-i-/ < *-ě-, the Slavic dialect is identified as Ikavian.

Noun

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

1. oak (Quercus, specifically Q. robur)

   Synonym: dushk

   Coordinate terms: bung, ilqe, qarr, shpardh

2. tall tree
3. (genealogy) lineage

   lis i gjakut ― patrilineal descendants

   lis i gjinisë ― matrilineal descendants

Declension

Hyponyms

• lis i bardhë (“Quercus cerris”)
• lis bujk (“Quercus trojana”)
• lis i butë (“Quercus pubescens”)
• lis i egër (“Ilex”)

Adjective

lis (feminine lise)

1. (figurative) strong and tall

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

Further reading

• “lis”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “lis”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary

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 (aorist lysa, participle lysur)

1. to pour

Derived terms

• lise

Related terms

• lot

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that one”).

Pronoun

lis

1. (to) them (indirect object)

Synonyms

• les

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlis]

Noun

lis m (plural lisos)

1. Sprekelia formosissima (Jacobean lily)

   Synonym: lliri azteca

Derived terms

• flor de lis

Further reading

• “lis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech lis (“press”), from Proto-Slavic *lisъ (“fox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪs]

Noun

lis m inan

1. (machine) press, squeezer

   Synonym: pres

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “lis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) lisch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lesch, lesche, lisc, lyse; probably from the same ultimate origin as Old High German liska, which see (modern German Liesch).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪs/
• Hyphenation: lis

Noun

lis m or n (plural lissen, diminutive lisje n)

1. an iris, a plant of the genus Iris

Derived terms

Further reading

• lis on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• lire

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lilium.

Noun

lis m (plural lis) (ORB, broad)

1. lily

References

• lys in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• lis in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Alternative forms

• lys

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French lis, from Old French lis, generalised from the nominative singular and accusative plural of earlier lil, from Latin lilium. The final /s/ survives from the Middle French pausal pronunciation (as in fils, ours, os, tous, etc.), but fleur de lis was formerly also pronounced with /li/.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lis m (plural lis)

1. lily

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li/

Verb

lis

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ils, s'il

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin illas, accusative feminine plural of illae.

Article

lis f pl (singular la)

1. the

Inflection

See also

• i

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French liste (“list”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

Noun

lis

1. list

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• les

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪs]
• Hyphenation: lis

Etymology 1

From Dutch lijst, from Italian lista, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *leizd (“band, border”).

Noun

lis

1. list, a register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself

   Synonym: daftar

Etymology 2

From Dutch lijst, from Middle Dutch lijste, from Old Dutch *līsta, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *leizd (“band, border”).

Noun

lis

1. frame, border

   Synonym: bingkai

Further reading

• “lis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin stlīs, slīs, perhaps with unusual reduction from Proto-Italic *slītis (“accusation, dispute”), from Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, possibly from a root Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH- (“to accuse”); cognate with Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlis]

Noun

līs f (genitive lītis); third declension

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

   Synonyms: rixa, certatus, iūrgium

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• lītigō

Descendants

• Galician: lide
• Italian: lite
• Portuguese: lide
• Sicilian: liti
• Spanish: lid

See also

References

Further reading

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲɪs̪]

Verb

li̇̀s

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

Middle High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈlɪs̠/

Verb

lis

1. second-person singular present imperative of lësen

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lisъ (“fox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈlis/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈlis/

Noun

lis m inan

1. winepress

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Czech: lis

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “lis”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lisъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: lis
• Homophone: Lis

Noun

lis m animal (female equivalent lisica, diminutive lisek, augmentative lisisko)

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 Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lisse.

Adjective

lis m or n (feminine singular lisă, masculine plural liși, feminine and neuter plural lise)

1. smooth

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlis/ [ˈlis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: lis

Noun

lis f (plural lises)

1. lily

   Synonym: lirio

2. fleur-de-lis

   Synonym: flor de lis

Further reading

• “lis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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