lien

See also: Lien, líen, and liền

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen ‎(“a bond”), from ligō ‎(“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːn/, /lɪən/
• Homophone: lean (IPA^(key): /liːn/)

Noun

Wikipedia

lien ‎(plural liens)

1. (obsolete) A tendon.
2. (law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 7:

     Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:lien.

Derived terms

• lienholder

Translations

a legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 留置權, 留置权 (zh) ‎(liúzhìquán)

• Czech: zástavní právo n
• French: sûreté réelle f
• German: Pfandrecht n
• Hungarian: zálogjog (hu)
• Japanese: 担保物権 (ja) ‎(たんぽぶっけん, tanpo bukken)

• Polish: zastaw (pl) m
• Portuguese: retenção (pt) f
• Russian: зало́говое пра́во n ‎(zalógovoje právo), зало́г (ru) m ‎(zalóg)
• Slovak: záložné právo n
• Slovene: zastavna pravica f
• Spanish: embargo (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} heftelse
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} lån (sv)

Verb

lien

1. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain

   If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

Anagrams

• LEIN, line, Neil, Nile

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ['li:ɛn]

Noun

lien m ‎(plural liennow)

1. literature

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French

Etymology

Old French, from Latin ligamen ‎(“bond”), from ligare ‎(“to bind”), present active infinitive of ligo.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ljɛ̃/

Noun

lien m ‎(plural liens)

1. link

External links

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

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Ancient Greek σπλήν ‎(splḗn), Old Armenian փայծաղն ‎(pʿaycałn), Avestan [script needed] ‎(spərəzan-), and Sanskrit प्लिहन् ‎(plihan).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.eːn/

Noun

liēn m ‎(genitive liēnis); third declension

1. spleen

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	liēn	liēnēs
genitive	liēnis	liēnum
dative	liēnī	liēnibus
accusative	liēnem	liēnēs
ablative	liēne	liēnibus
vocative	liēn	liēnēs

References

• lien in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lien in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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Latvian

Verb

lien

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of līst
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of līst
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of līst
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of līst
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of līst
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of līst

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *līan, from Proto-Germanic *līhwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.

Verb

lien

1. (eastern) to lend

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Middle French

Noun

lien m (plural liens)

1. tie; strap
2. (by extension) link (association)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• lïen (diareses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Noun

lien m ‎(oblique plural liens, nominative singular liens, nominative plural lien)

1. tie; strap
   • late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 408 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, ISBN 2-7453-0520-4), lines 901-2:

     Brenguain, ore alez pur le chen,
     amenez k'od tut le lïen

     Brangain, go get the dog,
     bring it with its leash

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Swedish

Noun

lien

1. definite singular of lie