bis

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

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪz/

Noun

bis

1. plural of bi

Etymology 2

From Latin bis (“twice”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

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, sib

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Albanian

Etymology

From Latin bis (“twice; again!”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/

Noun

bis ?

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

Interjection

bis

1. used to request an encore

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbis/

Etymology 1

From older bis (“dark grey”), of unknown origin.

Noun

bis m (plural bisos)

1. Either of two closely-related species of mackerel, the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias) or the Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus).

   Synonyms: bísol, cavalla, gallimó

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

Adverb

bis

1. again

Interjection

bis

1. encore

Noun

bis m (plural bisos)

1. encore

Further reading

• “bis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• biiza (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German wise, from Old High German wisa, further etymology unknown. Cognate with German Wiese.

Noun

bis f (diminutive bisan) (Luserna)

1. grass, lawn
2. meadow

References

• 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

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Danish

Noun

bis c

1. genitive singular indefinite of bi

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/
• Hyphenation: bis
• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Bis.

Noun

bis f (uncountable)

1. (music) B sharp

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin bis, from duis, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís, from *dwóh₁. Doublet of twee and duo.

Interjection

bis

1. Used to request an encore.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin bis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bis]
• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bis

Interjection

bis

1. encore!

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Fiji Hindi

Etymology

From Hindi बीस (bīs).

Numeral

bis

1. twenty

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French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi/

Noun

bis m pl or f pl

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/

Adverb

bis

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

   12 bis, rue des Carmelites ― 12A, rue des Carmelites

Descendants

• Vietnamese: bis

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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

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

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪs]
• Hyphenation: bis

Etymology 1

From Dutch bus (“container, box”) Compare to Dutch brievenbus (“letterbox, mailbox, post box”).

Noun

bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)

1. letterbox, mailbox, post box.

   Synonym: kotak surat

Derived terms

• mengebiskan

 

Etymology 2

From Dutch bus (“bus, omnibus”), shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Noun

bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)

1. Nonstandard form of bus (“bus”).

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

Adverb

bis

1. (colloquial) twice.

Etymology 4

From Dutch bies (“piping”), from Middle Dutch biese.

Noun

bis (first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)

1. pipe, piping
   1. a hollow conduit or something resembling a tube.
   2. decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric.

      Synonym: pelisir

2. vessel, tube, duct

   Synonym: pembuluh

Further reading

• “bis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin bis (“twice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: bìs

Noun

bis m (invariable)

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

   Un bis di baccalà

   Two varieties of salt cod

Adjective

bis (invariable)

1. additional

Further reading

• bis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	20[a], [b]
←  1	II 2	3  →
Cardinal: duo     Ordinal: secundus     Adverbial: bis     Multiplier: duplex, duplus     Distributive: bīnī     Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis

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 *dwís (“in two, twice, doubly”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”); compare Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “dis”), Sanskrit द्विस् (dvis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bis/, [bɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bis/, [bis]

• 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, 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

• 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[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
    
• “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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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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Middle English

Etymology

A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects).

Verb

bis

1. Alternative form of bith

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Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɪ̀s]

Noun

bis

1. adobe, clay, clod, cake of dirt

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: bis

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

Further reading

• bis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈbi(j)s/, [ˈbi(ɪ̯)s]

• IPA^(key): (Brazil including São Paulo) /ˈbi(j)s/, [ˈbi(ɪ̯)s]
  • IPA^(key): (Rio de Janeiro) /ˈbi(j)ʃ/, [ˈbi(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈbiʃ/, [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 or f

1. plural of bi

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Spanish

Noun

bis m (plural bises)

1. encore

Related terms

• bisar

See also

• otra vez
• otras tres

Further reading

• “bis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

bis

1. indefinite genitive singular of bi.

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From French bis, from Latin bis (“twice”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˦ səː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓit̚˦˧˥ səː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˦˥ səː˧˧]
• Phonetic: bít xơ

Adverb

bis

1. (in street numbering) a; designating a second thing with the same number.

See also

• ter
• kép

References

• Đỗ Phi Hùng (2012-02-13), “Vẫn loay hoay trong "mê hồn trận" số nhà”, in Tuổi Trẻ‎^[2] (in Vietnamese), Ho Chi Minh City, retrieved 2022-03-12