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

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

bis

  1. plural of bi

Etymology 2

From Latin bis (twice).

Pronunciation

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


Albanian

Etymology

From Latin bis (twice; again!).

Pronunciation

Noun

bis

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

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Interjection

bis

  1. used to request an encore

Cimbrian

Noun

bis f

  1. meadow, lawn

Derived terms

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Noun

bis c

  1. genitive singular indefinite of bi

Dutch

Pronunciation

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.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin bis.

Pronunciation

Interjection

bis

  1. encore!

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

From Hindi बीस (bīs).

Numeral

bis

  1. twenty

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

bis m pl or f pl

  1. plural of bi

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

bis (feminine 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

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 Carmelites12A, rue des Carmelites

Adjective

bis (invariable)

  1. alternative, secondary

Noun

bis m (plural bis)

  1. encore

Interjection

bis

  1. used to request an encore

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From bise

Pronunciation

Noun

bis m (plural bis)

  1. (Quebec) kiss

Further reading


German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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


Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bus.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. bus

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bis (twice)

Pronunciation

Noun

bis m

  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

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), duis for bis (twice) 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

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

Derived terms

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 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

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

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.

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

Navajo

Pronunciation

Noun

bis

  1. adobe, clay, clod, cake of dirt

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

bis m inan

  1. encore

Declension


Portuguese

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

From Latin bis (twice).

Adverb

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

Noun

bis m (invariable)

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

Interjection

bis!

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

Etymology 2

Noun

bis m or f

  1. plural of bi

Swedish

Noun

bis

  1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of bi