bis
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin bis (“twice”), q.v.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bis (not comparable)
- Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin bis (“twice; again!”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis ?
- encore (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete)
Interjection[edit]
bis
- used to request an encore
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From older bis (“dark grey”), of unknown origin.
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bisos)
- Either of two closely-related species of mackerel, the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias) or the Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus).
Etymology 2[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).
Adverb[edit]
bis
Interjection[edit]
bis
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bisos)
Further reading[edit]
- “bis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cimbrian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- biiza (Sette Comuni)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German wise, from Old High German wisa, further etymology unknown. Cognate with German Wiese.
Noun[edit]
bis f (diminutive bisan) (Luserna)
References[edit]
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis c
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis f (uncountable)
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Latin bis, from duis, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís, from *dwóh₁. Doublet of twee and duo.
Interjection[edit]
bis
- Used to request an encore.
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
bis
Fiji Hindi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Numeral[edit]
bis
French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m pl or f pl
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin bysseus (“cotton-coloured”); cf. Italian bigio.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bis (feminine singular bise, masculine plural bis, feminine plural bises)
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bis
- again (a second time); encore
- (in street numbering or law) a; designating a second thing with the same number
- 12 bis, rue des Carmelites ― 12A, rue des Carmelites
Descendants[edit]
- Vietnamese: bis
Adjective[edit]
bis (invariable)
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bis)
Interjection[edit]
bis
- used to request an encore
Derived terms[edit]
- bisser (“to ask for an encore; to do an encore”)
- itinéraire bis (“detour”)
Etymology 4[edit]
From bise.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bis)
- (Quebec) kiss
Further reading[edit]
- “bis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German biz, bit, bitze, from bī (“by”) + ze (“to”). Equivalent to modern bei/be- and zu. Compare German Low German bit (“until”), Saterland Frisian bit (“until”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
bis
- (subordinating, temporal) until
- Wir warten hier, bis das Gewitter vorbei ist.
- We'll wait here until the thunderstorm is over.
- (coordinating) to
- Ich arbeite 40 bis 50 Stunden in der Woche.
- I work 40 to 50 hours a week.
- Ihre Haare sind braun bis dunkelbraun.
- Her hair is brown to dark brown.
Preposition[edit]
bis
- (temporal) until, to, (US) through
- Meine Tochter ist bis zwei Uhr in der Schule.
- My daughter is at school until two o'clock.
- Ich war von Montag bis Freitag krank.
- I was sick from Monday to Friday.
- (temporal) by
- Die Aufgabe muss bis Donnerstag fertig sein.
- The task must be complete by Thursday.
- (local) to; all the way to
- Der Zug fährt bis Köln.
- The train goes to Cologne.
Usage notes[edit]
- The temporal preposition bis can be followed by temporal adverbs of all kind: bis nachmittags (“until afternoon”), bis jetzt (“until now”). Moreover it can be followed by times, dates, holidays, days of the week, months, or years. The words Woche (“week”), Monat (“month”), and Jahr (“year”), as well as the names of days and months may also be preceded by letzter, voriger, dieser, kommender, or nächster. For example: bis letzte Woche (“until last week”); bis nächsten Freitag (“by next Friday”).
- The local preposition bis can be followed by local adverbs of all kind (e.g. bis hier (“over here”)) and by place names (see above).
- In other cases, bis must be followed by another preposition, most commonly zu (“to”): bis zum Sommer (“until summer”); bis zum ersten Freitag im neuen Jahr (“by the first Friday of the new year”); bis zum Hauptbahnhof (“to the main station”). This means that bis is never directly followed by a definite or indefinite article. Sometimes other prepositions may also be used after bis: Er ging bis ans Ufer. (“He went close to the shore”).
Derived terms[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Dutch bus (“container, box”) Compare to Dutch brievenbus (“letterbox, mailbox, post box”).
Noun[edit]
bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)
- letterbox, mailbox, post box.
- Synonym: kotak surat
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Dutch bus (“bus, omnibus”), shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).
Noun[edit]
bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)
- Nonstandard form of bus (“bus”).
Etymology 3[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).
Adverb[edit]
bis
- (colloquial) twice.
Etymology 4[edit]
From Dutch bies (“piping”), from Middle Dutch biese.
Noun[edit]
bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)
- pipe, piping
- a hollow conduit or something resembling a tube.
- decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric.
- Synonym: pelisir
- vessel, tube, duct
- Synonym: pembuluh
Further reading[edit]
- “bis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m (invariable)
- encore
- repetition
- duo (two varieties as a unit)
- Un bis di baccalà
- Two varieties of salt cod
Adjective[edit]
bis (invariable)
Further reading[edit]
- bis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
20[a], [b] | ||
← 1 | II 2 |
3 → |
---|---|---|
Cardinal: duo Ordinal: secundus Adverbial: bis Multiplier: duplex, duplus Distributive: bīnī Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis |
Etymology[edit]
An adverb for duis, from duo (“two”), as /b/ is often interchanged with /du/ in word-initial position in Latin (in the same way as duellum for bellum (“war”), duonus for bonus (“good”), etc.). Before that, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“in two, twice, doubly”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”); compare Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “dis”), Sanskrit द्विस् (dvis).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bis (not comparable)
- twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways
- Falli bis.
- To be deceived twice.
- Familia mea bis in hebdomade ad ecclesiam it.
- My family goes to the church twice a week.
Usage notes[edit]
- The word bis (“twice”) drops the s when making compositions, like the Greek word δίς (dís, “dis”). Some words created by compositing include biceps, bidens, bifer, bigener, bīga, bilix. Because the s is dropped, it's better to write the words like bissenus, bisseni and bissextus as two words—bis senus, bis seni and bis sextus.
Derived terms[edit]
- bis ad eundem (“to commit the same error twice”)
- bis in anno, bis anno (“twice a year”)
- bis in die, bis die (“twice a day”)
- bis in mense, bis mense (“twice a month”)
- bis minus
- bis tanto, bis tantum (“twice as great, twice as much”)
- bis terque (“several times, repeatedly”)
- ne bis in idem
References[edit]
- “bis”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “bis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
- twice consul: bis consul
- to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
- “bis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Luxembourgish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
bis
- until (something becomes true)
- Mir waarde mam Iessen, bis datt eis Gäscht all ukomm sinn.
- We are waiting with the food until all our guests have arrived.
- between ... and
- Zeideg Quidde moosse 7 bis 12 Zentimeter laang.
- Mature quinces measure between 7 and 12 centimetres long.
Preposition[edit]
bis
- until (a certain time)
- D'Metzlerei ass bis fënnef Auer nomëttes op.
- The butcher's is open until five in the afternoon.
- up to, to
- Hire Jong ka scho bis zéng zielen.
- Their son can already count up to ten.
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects).
Verb[edit]
bis
- Alternative form of bith
[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m inan
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bis in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -is
Etymology 1[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bis (not comparable)
- bis (shows that something is to be repeated)
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bis)
Derived terms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
bis!
- encore! (used by an audience to request a second performance)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m or f
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis m (plural bises)
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “bis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
bis
- indefinite genitive singular of bi.
Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French bis, from Latin bis (“twice”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˦ səː˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓit̚˦˧˥ səː˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˦˥ səː˧˧]
- Phonetic: bít xơ
Adverb[edit]
bis
- (in street numbering) a; designating a second thing with the same number.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- Rhymes:English/ɪs
- Rhymes:English/ɪs/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English adverbs
- English uncomparable adverbs
- Albanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Albanian terms derived from Latin
- Albanian 1-syllable words
- Albanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian interjections
- Catalan 1-syllable words
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
- Catalan learned borrowings from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan adverbs
- Catalan interjections
- ca:Scombroids
- ca:Performance
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms derived from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Old High German
- Cimbrian terms derived from Old High German
- Cimbrian lemmas
- Cimbrian nouns
- Cimbrian feminine nouns
- Luserna Cimbrian
- cim:Landforms
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish noun forms
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/is
- Dutch terms borrowed from German
- Dutch terms derived from German
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch feminine nouns
- nl:Music
- Dutch terms borrowed from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Dutch doublets
- Dutch interjections
- Esperanto terms derived from Latin
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio links
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto interjections
- Fiji Hindi terms derived from Hindi
- Fiji Hindi lemmas
- Fiji Hindi numerals
- Fiji Hindi cardinal numbers
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French non-lemma forms
- French noun forms
- French terms derived from Latin
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French adverbs
- French terms with usage examples
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French interjections
- Quebec French
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German terms with homophones
- Rhymes:German/ɪs
- Rhymes:German/ɪs/1 syllable
- German lemmas
- German conjunctions
- German terms with usage examples
- German prepositions
- German subordinating conjunctions
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Indonesian terms derived from Latin
- Indonesian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Dutch
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries
- Indonesian nonstandard forms
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Latin
- Indonesian learned borrowings from Latin
- Indonesian adverbs
- Indonesian colloquialisms
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 1-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/is
- Rhymes:Italian/is/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian terms with usage examples
- Italian adjectives
- Italian indeclinable adjectives
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with audio links
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adverbs
- Latin uncomparable adverbs
- Latin frequency adverbs
- Latin terms with quotations
- Latin terms with usage examples
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Luxembourgish 1-syllable words
- Luxembourgish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Luxembourgish lemmas
- Luxembourgish conjunctions
- Luxembourgish terms with usage examples
- Luxembourgish prepositions
- Middle English non-lemma forms
- Middle English verb forms
- Navajo terms with IPA pronunciation
- Navajo lemmas
- Navajo nouns
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/is
- Rhymes:Polish/is/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/is
- Rhymes:Portuguese/is/1 syllable
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adverbs
- Portuguese uncomparable adverbs
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese irregular nouns
- Portuguese informal terms
- Portuguese interjections
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese noun forms
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish noun forms
- Vietnamese terms borrowed from French
- Vietnamese terms derived from French
- Vietnamese terms borrowed from Latin
- Vietnamese terms derived from Latin
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese adverbs