lapis

See also: lápis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlapɪs/

Etymology

Shortened form of lapis lazuli.

Noun

lapis (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang) lapis lazuli

Anagrams

• ALIPs, Alsip, lipas, pails, spial

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Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Bolinao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la‧pis

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

lapis

1. the doublespotted queenfish ()

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish lápiz (“pencil”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lapis (“stone”).

Noun

lapis

1. a pencil

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Cuyunon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Indonesian

Noun

lapis (first-person possessive lapisku, second-person possessive lapismu, third-person possessive lapisnya)

1. layer, lining
2. row
3. stratum

Adjective

lapis

1. in layers

Derived terms

• lapisan
• berlapis
• melapis

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lapis. Doublet of lapide.

Noun

lapis m (uncountable)

1. pencil

   Synonym: matita

2. sanguine (red chalk)

   Synonym: sanguigna

Derived terms

• appuntalapis

Descendants

• → Catalan: llapis
• → Galician: lapis
• → Maltese: lapes
• → Portuguese: lápis
• → Spanish: lápiz
• → Portuguese: lápis

Anagrams

• salpi, spali, pails

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Kavalan

Noun

lapis

1. squirrel

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Latin

Etymology

May be connected with Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “bare rock, crag”), from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”). Confer with saxum - secō, rupēs - rumpō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis/, [ˈɫ̪äpɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis/, [ˈläːpis]

Noun

lapis m (genitive lapidis); third declension

1. a stone
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Genesis 28:22:

     et lapis iste quem erexi in titulum vocabitur Domus Dei

     And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house

2. a milestone
3. a boundary stone
4. gravestone, tombstone
5. Lapis Manalis in Latin "stone of manes" covers the gate of Hades or underworld
6. a stone platform at a slave auction
7. a statue
8. (poetic) jewel, precious stone

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lapis	lapidēs
Genitive	lapidis	lapidum
Dative	lapidī	lapidibus
Accusative	lapidem	lapidēs
Ablative	lapide	lapidibus
Vocative	lapis	lapidēs

Synonyms

• (a stone): saxum

Derived terms

• lapicīda
• lapidāris
• lapidēscō
• lapideus
• lapidō
• lapidōsus
• lapillus
• lapiō

Related terms

• lapidārius
• lapidātiō
• lapidātor

Descendants

• → Albanian: laps
• Italian: lapide
• → Italian: lapis
  • → Catalan: llapis
  • → Galician: lapis
  • → Maltese: lapes
  • → Portuguese: lápis
  • → Spanish: lápiz
  • → Portuguese: lápis

• → Galician: lapislázuli
• → Portuguese: lápide
• Romanian: lespede (possibly)
• → Russian: ляпис (ljapis)
• Spanish: laude; → lápida

References

• “lapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lapis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lapis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lapis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 678

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Limos Kalinga

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Lubuagan Kalinga

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Masbatenyo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Tetum

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese lápis.

Noun

lapis

1. pencil

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Waray-Waray

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

Noun

lapis

1. pencil