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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English līste, from Proto-Germanic *līstōn. Cognate with Dutch lijst, German Leiste, Icelandic lista/listi.

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list (plural lists)

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton 2005, page 681:
      The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.
  3. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.
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strip of fabric
material used for cloth selvage
barriers used for tournaments

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English liste (“roll of names, contestants in the lists”) (from lists (“place of combat at the boundary of fields”) from Middle English listes, plural of liste (“list”)) from Old English līste (“list, fringe, border”)

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list (plural lists)

  1. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
  2. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
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register or roll of paper
computing: codified representation of a list
LISP: data structure
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list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.
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to create or recite a list

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From listen

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list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)

  1. To listen
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to listen

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Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[1]

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list (plural lists)

  1. (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
  2. (architecture) a tilt to a building.
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nautical: tilting or careening manoeuvre

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list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre
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to carry out such a manoeuvre

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Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijanan, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). Akin to Old Norse lysta (whence cognate with Danish and Norwegian lyste), Old High German lusten (German gelüsten and obsolete lüsten).

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list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 413:
      The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
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to be pleasing to
to wish, like, desire

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[edit] Czech

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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list m.

  1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
  2. letter (written message)
  3. sheet (sheet of paper)
  4. newspaper
    Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)
  5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)
    rodný list -- birth certificate
    úmrtní list -- death certificate

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list f. and m. (??? please provide the plural and diminutive!)

  1. a cunning plan

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list f.

  1. art

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f2 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative list listin listir listirnar
Accusative list listina listir listirnar
Dative list listini listum listunum
Genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

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list f. (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

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declension of list
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listinni listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

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[edit] Lower Sorbian

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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list m.

  1. letter (a written message)

[edit] Old English

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From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list (Dutch list), Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

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list f.

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

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    Declension of list (strong ō-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative list lista, liste
accusative liste lista, liste
genitive liste lista
dative liste listum

[edit] Polish

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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list m.

  1. letter (a written message)

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    declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listów
dative listowi listom
accusative list listy
instrumental listem listami
locative liście listach
vocative liście listy

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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lȋst m. (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст)

  1. leaf
  2. (computing) leaf
  3. sole (fish)
  4. letter (written message)
  5. sheet of paper
  6. calf (leg part)
  7. a special purpose certificate, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.

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    declension of list
singular plural
nominative lȋst lȉstovi
genitive lista lȉstōvā
dative listu listovima
accusative list listove
vocative listu listovi
locative listu listovima
instrumental listom listovima

[edit] Slovak

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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list m.

  1. letter; a written message
  2. leaf; a part of a tree
  3. sheet; a piece of paper

[edit] Slovene

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From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

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list m. (plural listi)

  1. piece of paper
  2. leaf
  3. sole
  4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

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  • listje (leaves, collective noun)

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list c.

  1. smartness, trick, cunning
  2. a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
  3. (graphical user interface) a bar

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Declension of list
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listen lister listerna
genitive lists listens listers listernas

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