bis

See also: Bis, bis-, biş, biś, and bís

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪz/

Noun

bis

1. plural of bi

Etymology 2

From Latin bis (“twice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

Adverb

bis (not comparable)

1. Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

Anagrams

• BSI, IBS, IBs, sib

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Albanian

Noun

bis ?

1. encore (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete)

This Albanian entry was created from the translations listed at encore. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see bis in the Albanian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) March 2010

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Danish

Noun

bis c

1. genitive singular indefinite of bi

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin bis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/

Interjection

bis

1. encore!

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Fiji Hindi

Etymology

From Hindi बीस (bīs).

Numeral

bis

1. (cardinal) twenty

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French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi/

Noun

bis ?

1. plural of bi

Etymology 2

From Latin bysseus (“cotton-coloured”); cf. Italian bigio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi/

Adjective

bis (feminine singular bise, masculine plural bis, feminine plural bises)

1. beige (colour)
2. brown (of bread that contains bran)

Etymology 3

From Latin bis (“twice”)

Pronunciation

• (adverb) IPA^(key): /bis/
• (otherwise) IPA^(key): /bi/

Adverb

bis

1. again (a second time); encore
2. (in street numbering) a; designating a second residence with the same number.

   12 bis, rue des Carmelites ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Adjective

bis (invariable)

1. alternative, secondary

Noun

bis m (plural bis)

1. encore

Interjection

bis

1. used to request an encore

Derived terms

• bisser (“to ask for an encore; to do an encore”)
• itinéraire bis (“detour”)

Etymology 4

From bise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi/

Noun

bis m (plural bis)

1. (Quebec) kiss

Further reading

• “bis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German biz, from bī ze. Equivalent to modern bei and zu. Compare Saterland Frisian bit (“until”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

• audio (Germany)

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• audio (Austria)

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• Homophone: Biss
• Rhymes: -ɪs

Conjunction

bis

1. (subordinating, temporal) until

   Wir warten hier, bis das Gewitter vorbei ist.

   We'll wait here until the thunderstorm is over.

2. (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

bis

1. (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.

2. (temporal) by

   Die Aufgabe muss bis Donnerstag fertig sein.

   The task must be complete by Thursday.

3. (local) to; all the way to

   Der Zug fährt bis Köln.

   The train goes to Cologne.

Usage notes

• 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

• bis auf

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/

Noun

bis

1. bus

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin bis (“twice”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/

Noun

bis m

1. encore
2. repetition
3. duo (two varieties as a unit)

   Un bis di baccalà

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Adjective

bis (invariable)

1. additional

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Latin

Etymology

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 *duwo (“two”), *dwóh₁; compare Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “dis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bis/, [bɪs]

• Audio (Classical)

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Adverb

bis (not comparable)

1. twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.9

     Me torret face mutua / Thurini Calais filius Ornyti, / pro quo bis patiar mori, / si parcent puero fata superstiti.

     I love my own fond lover, / Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus: / For him I'd die twice over, / Would Fate but spare the sweet survivor thus.

   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

• 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, biiugus, 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

Terms derived from bis

• 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

• bis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bis” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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
    
• bis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Lojban

Rafsi

bis

1. rafsi of bisli.

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/

Conjunction

bis

1. 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.

2. between ... and

   Zeideg Quidde moosse 7 bis 12 Zentimeter laang.

   Mature quinces measure between 7 and 12 centimetres long.

Preposition

bis

1. until (a certain time)

   D'Metzlerei ass bis fënnef Auer nomëttes op.

   The butcher's is open until five in the afternoon.

2. up to, to

   Hire Jong ka scho bis zéng zielen.

   Their son can already count up to ten.

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Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɪ̀s]

Noun

bis

1. adobe, clod, cake of dirt

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲis/

Noun

bis m inan

1. encore

Declension

declension of bis

	singular	plural
nominative	bis	bisy
genitive	bisu	bisów
dative	bisowi	bisom
accusative	bis	bisy
instrumental	bisem	bisami
locative	bisie	bisach
vocative	bisie	bisy

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbis/, /ˈbiʃ/
• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

From Latin bis (“twice”).

Adverb

bis (not comparable)

1. bis (shows that something is to be repeated)

Noun

bis m (plural bis)

1. encore (brief extra performance)
2. (by extension, informal) a second serving of something

Derived terms

• bisar

Interjection

bis!

1. encore! (used by an audience to request a second performance)

Etymology 2

Noun

bis m f

1. plural of bi

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Swedish

Noun

bis

1. indefinite genitive singular of bi