lien

See also liên

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /liːn/, /lɪən/
• Homophone: lean (IPA: /liːn/)

Noun

Wikipedia lien (plural liens)

1. (obsolete) A tendon.
2. (law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 7:

     Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• lienholder

Translations

A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty

• Russian: залоговое право n

• Spanish: embargo (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: heftelse
• Swedish: lån

Verb

lien

1. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain.

   If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

Anagrams

• LEIN
• line
• Neil
• Nile

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French

Etymology

Old French, from Latin ligamen (“bond”), from ligare (“to bind”), present active infinitive of ligo.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ljɛ̃/

Noun

lien m (plural liens)

1. link

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Latin

Noun

liēn (genitive liēnis); m, third declension

1. spleen

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	liēn	liēnēs
genitive	liēnis	liēnum
dative	liēnī	liēnibus
accusative	liēnem	liēnēs
ablative	liēne	liēnibus
vocative	liēn	liēnēs

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Swedish

Noun

lien

1. definite singular of lie