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VIS,

2-letter words (2 found)

IS,SI,

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Definitions and meaning of vis

vis

Etymology 1

From Latin vis.

Noun

vis (plural vires)

  1. Force; energy; might; power.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • vim
  • virial

Etymology 2

Noun

vis

  1. Abbreviation of viscount.

Etymology 3

From Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

vis (plural visses)

  1. Alternative spelling of viss

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

  • viz

Adjective

vis (not comparable)

  1. Clipping of visual.

Verb

vis (third-person singular simple present vises, present participle vissing, simple past and past participle vissed)

  1. Clipping of visualize.

Noun

vis (plural vises)

  1. Clipping of visualization.
  2. Clipping of visual.
  3. Clipping of visibility.
Derived terms

Anagrams

  • ISV, IVs, SIV

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vis, from Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fəs/

Noun

vis (plural visse, diminutive vissie)

  1. fish (aquatic organism)
  2. (collective) fish (multiple fish collectively)

Related terms

  • visser

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uitśi-(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“house, settlement”). Cognate to Sanskrit विश् (víś, “settlement, community, tribe”), Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house”), Latin vicus (“village”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vis]

Noun

vis m (plural vise, definite visi, definite plural viset)

  1. place
  2. land
  3. country

Declension

Derived terms

  • visele

References

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪs]
  • Rhymes: -ɪs
  • Homophone: viz

Verb

vis

  1. second-person singular imperative of viset

Anagrams

  • vsi

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vādō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βis/

Verb

vis

  1. (first-person singular indicative present) of zer

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vís (in ǫðru vís(i) "otherwise"), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsǭ (“manner”). Cognate with Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, Dutch wijze and German Weise. Another variant of the same word is Danish vise (“song”), Swedish visa, from Old Norse vísa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʋiːˀs]
  • Rhymes: -iːˀs

Noun

vis c

  1. manner, way
Derived terms
  • -vis

References

“vis,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognates include Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, and German weise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʋiˀs]
  • Rhymes: -iːˀs

Adjective

vis

  1. wise
Inflection

References

“vis,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz, cognate with Norwegian viss, Swedish viss, German gewiss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʋes]
  • Rhymes: -es

Adjective

vis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive visse)

  1. sure, certain
  2. certain, a

References

“vis,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʋiˀs]
  • Rhymes: -iːˀs

Verb

vis

  1. imperative of vise

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪs/
  • Hyphenation: vis
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Noun

vis m (plural vissen, diminutive visje n)

  1. (countable) fish (aquatic organism)
  2. (uncountable) fish (quantity of the above seen as catch, product, meat)
Alternative forms
  • (before 1934) visch
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: vis
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
  • Jersey Dutch: väśe
  • Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
  • Petjo: fis
  • →? Aukan: fisi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vis

  1. inflection of vissen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French viz, from Latin vītis (“vine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vis/
  • Homophones: vice, vices, visse, vissent, visses

Noun

vis f (plural vis)

  1. screw (metal fastener)
Derived terms
  • dévisser
  • serrer la vis
  • tournevis
  • visser
Descendants
  • → Catalan: vis
  • → Dutch: vijs
  • → Vietnamese: vít

Etymology 2

See vivre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi/
  • Homophones: vie, vies, vit, vît

Verb

vis

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

Etymology 3

See voir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi/
  • Homophones: vie, vies, vit, vît

Verb

vis

  1. first/second-person singular past historic of voir

Further reading

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

See also

  • vis-à-vis

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːs/, [u̯iːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vis/, [vis]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “strength”), Sanskrit वयस् (vayas, “enjoyment, vigor, youth, age”). See also via, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).

Noun

vīs f (irregular, genitive *vīs); third declension

  1. force, power, strength, vigor, faculty, potency
    Synonyms: rōbur, ops, vehementia
  2. (in the plural) strength, might (physical)
    omnibus vīribus ― with all his strength; with all her might; with all their force
  3. violence, assault
    Synonyms: aggressiō, impressiō, assultus, invāsiō, concursus, impetus, appetītus, occursiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, incursiō, petītiō, ictus, procella
    • the Wikipedia page Martin Luther on Catholic church reform
    ad vim atque ad arma confugere ― appeal to violence and fighting
  4. (figuratively) meaning, significance, nature, essence and value of a word
  5. (figuratively) assault, affront
  6. (figuratively) quantity, flood
  7. (New Latin, physics) energy, force
Usage notes
  • The genitive and dative singular are not in common use (with exceptional attestations being analogical) and substituted with forms of rōbur (rōboris, rōborī).
  • The plural forms of this noun are often treated as a separate plurale tantum noun, with a distinct meaning of physical force. An analogical nominative/accusative vīs is occasionally found, beginning with Lucretius.
Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular, defective).

Derived terms
  • vindex
  • violēns/ violentus
  • violō
Descendants
  • → English: vis, vim

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁si, second-person singular present of *wéyh₁ti. This particular form is suppletive, in contrast to the other forms of volō, which derive from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. (Proto-Italic *wels became a separate word (vel (“or, and/or”), to be specific) in Latin.)

Verb

vīs

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of volō
Derived terms
  • quantusvīs
  • sī vīs
  • quīvīs

References

  • “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vis 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)
  • vis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “vis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • “vis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Further reading

  • Vis medicatrix naturae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latvian

Particle

vis (invariable)

  1. Used to strengthen denying of the verb
    nav vis ― not at all
    es neiešu vis ― I shall not go

Adverb

vis

  1. very, most (synonym of word pats)

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • viz

Etymology

From Old French vis.

Noun

vis m (plural vis)

  1. face

Descendants

  • French: vis

Norman

Verb

vis

  1. first-person singular preterite of vaie

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víss.

Adjective

vis (neuter singular vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visere, indefinite superlative visest, definite superlative viseste)

  1. wise
Derived terms
  • visdom

Etymology 2

Verb

vis

  1. imperative of vise

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋiːs/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz. Akin to English wise.

Adjective

vis (neuter vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visare, indefinite superlative visast, definite superlative visaste)

  1. wise

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Akin to English wise.

Noun

vis f or m or n (definite singular visen or visa or viset, indefinite plural visar or viser or vis, definite plural visane or visene or visa)

  1. a way, manner
    Synonym: måte
Usage notes
  • The by far most common gender in use is neuter.
Inflection

Etymology 3

Verb

vis

  1. imperative of visa

References

  • “vis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • siv, svi

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin vīsus (“act of looking; appearance”).

Noun

vis oblique singular, m (oblique plural vis, nominative singular vis, nominative plural vis)

  1. (anatomy) face
    Synonyms: visage, face
  2. opinion
Descendants
  • French: visage, avis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vis

  1. inflection of vif (“alive”):
    1. oblique plural
    2. nominative singular

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vītis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vis/

Noun

vis f (plural vis)

  1. vine

Polabian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvis/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vьśь.

Pronoun

vis m

  1. all

Alternative forms

  • vės

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *osь.

Noun

vis f

  1. axis

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • Lehr-Spławiński, Tadeusz (1994) Słownik etymołogiczny języka drzewian połabskich. Zeszyt 6. (in Polish), Warszawa: Energia, pages 991-992.

Portuguese

Adjective

vis

  1. masculine/feminine plural of vil

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīsum.

Pronunciation

Noun

vis n (plural visuri or vise)

  1. dream; vision

Declension

Related terms

  • visa
  • vedea

See also

  • вис (vis) (Moldavian spelling)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vysь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋîːs/

Noun

vȋs m (Cyrillic spelling ви̑с)

  1. (expressively, in the literature) height
    dići u vis ― to raise, elevate
    skok u vis ― high jump
  2. summit (of a hill)

Declension

References

  • “vis” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos (“knowledgeable”).

Adjective

vis (comparative visare, superlative visast)

  1. wise
Usage notes
  • In de tre vise männen (“the three wise men”), an archaic weak masculine plural form vise is used.
Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą.

Noun

vis n

  1. a way; manner in which something is done or happens
Declension
Synonyms
  • sätt

Anagrams

  • Siv

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Noun

vis m (plural [please provide])

  1. fish

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