CIS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cis"

English

Etymology 1

Initialisms.

Noun

CIS (plural CISes)

1. Initialism of contact image sensor.
   • 1998, PC Mag, volume 17, number 18, page 179:

     Because of its tabloid-size scanbed, the Plug-n-Scan has a large footprint that makes it very stable. On the other hand, being a CIS scanner, it's light and has a very low profile and is designed so that the scanner can be stood upright on its end and still function.

2. (medicine, software) Initialism of clinical information system.

   Coordinate terms: HIS, RIS, PACS, DICOM, HL7, EHR, EMR

3. Initialism of clinically isolated syndrome.

Proper noun

CIS

1. Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.
2. (UK, business) Initialism of Construction Industry Scheme.
3. (Canada, sports, historical) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
4. (Philippines, motor racing) Initialism of Clark International Speedway.
5. Initialism of Center for Immigration Studies.
   • 2025 August 28, Caleb Kieffer, R.G. Cravens, “Homeland Security deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit”, in Southern Poverty Law Center‎^[1]:

     Bensman joins Jon Feere, another CIS alumnus who rejoined the Trump administration as ICE’s chief of staff. CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian reposted DHS’ “Which Way, American Man” ad on X.

Translations

Commonwealth of Independent States

• Afrikaans: GOS
• Aragonese: CEI
• Armenian: ԱՊՀ (hy) (APH)
• Asturian: CEI
• Bashkir: БДБ (BDB)
• Basque: EIE
• Belarusian: СНД (SND)
• Breton: KSD
• Bulgarian: ОНД (OND)
• Catalan: CEI
• Czech: SNS (cs)
• Danish: SNG
• Dutch: GOS
• Estonian: SRÜ
• Finnish: IVY (fi)
• French: CEI (fr) f
• German: GUS (de) f
• Greek: ΚΑΚ f (KAK)
• Hungarian: FÁK (hu)
• Japanese: CIS (ja) (CIS), 独立国家共同体 (dokuritsu-kokka-kyōdōtai)
• Latvian: NVS
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: SUS

  Norwegian Nynorsk: SUS

• Polish: WNP (pl) f
• Portuguese: CEI (pt) f
• Romanian: CSI f
• Russian: СНГ (ru) n (SNG)
• Slovak: SNŠ
• Spanish: CEI f
• Swedish: OSS
• Turkish: BDT (tr)
• Ukrainian: СНД (SND)

Etymology 2

Likely originates from the false etymology asserting that cis is an initialism standing for comfortable in skin.

Adjective

CIS (not comparable)

2. (proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of cis (“cisgender”).

Further reading

• CIS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ics, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, SIC, Sci., sci, sci., sic

Romanian

Etymology

Initialism of carte de identitate simplă.

Noun

CIS f or n (plural CIS-uri)

1. simple (non-electronic) identity card

   Coordinate terms: CEI, CI

Usage notes

Typically invariable as a feminine noun.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	CIS	CIS-ul		CIS-uri	CIS-urile
genitive-dative	CIS	CIS-ului		CIS-uri	CIS-urilor
vocative	CIS-ule			CIS-urilor