lis

See also: Lis, LIS, -lis, ліс, and лис

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lis (plural lisses)

1. (heraldry) fleur-de-lis
   • 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, ABC of Heraldry (page 175)

     […] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle.

Etymology 2

Noun

lis

1. plural of li

Anagrams

• ILS, ILs, ISL, LSI, SIL, SLI, Sil, sil

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

Etymology 1

From a South Slavic language, compare Ikavian Serbo-Croatian lȉs (“coffin; (dial.) lumber, wood(s), forest”), Old Church Slavonic лѣсъ (lěsŭ, “wood(s), forest”), and Bulgarian лес (les, “forest”); ultimately from Proto-Slavic *lěsъ (“tree, forest”). Alternatively, a formation related to lëndë, similar to the connection of vis with vend.

Noun

lis m (plural lisa, definite lisi, definite plural lisat)

1. English oak (Quercus robur)
2. tall tree
3. (genealogy) lineage

Hypernyms

• dushk

Hyponyms

• plants:
  • lis i bardhë (“Turkey oak”) (Quercus cerris)
  • lis bujk (“Macedonian oak”)(Quercus trojana)
  • lis i butë (“downy oak”) ()
  • lis i egër (“holly”) (Ilex spp.)
• lineage:
  • lis i gjakut (“patrilineal descendants”)
  • lis i gjinisë (“matrilineal descendants”)

Coordinate terms

• bung, ilqe, qarr, shpardh

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *leitšja, from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to pour”). Cognate with Latin libare (“to pour, to libate”), Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌿 (leiþu, “fruit wine”).

Verb

lis (aorist lysa, participle lysur)

1. to pour

Derived terms

• lise

Related terms

• lot

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Catalan

Noun

lis m (plural lisos)

1. (Jacobean lily)

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Czech

Noun

1. press, machine press

Synonyms

• pres

Related terms

• lisovat

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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French

Etymology 1

From Latin lilium

Alternative forms

• lys

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

• audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: lice, lices, lisse, lissent, lisses, lys

Noun

lis m (plural lis)

1. lily

Etymology 2

Inflected forms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li/

Verb

lis

1. inflection of lire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Anagrams

• ils, s’il

Further reading

• “lis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Friulian

Friulian Definite Articles
	singular	plural
masculine	il l'	i
feminine	la l'	lis

Etymology

From Latin illas, accusative feminine plural of illae.

Article

lis f pl (singular la)

1. the

See also

• i

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French liste (“list”).

Noun

lis

1. list

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin stlīs, from Proto-Italic *slī-ti- (“accusation, dispute”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH-, related to Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liːs/, [lʲiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lis/, [lis]

Noun

līs f (genitive lītis); third declension

1. lawsuit, action
2. contention, strife, quarrel

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līs	lītēs
Genitive	lītis	lītium
Dative	lītī	lītibus
Accusative	lītem	lītēs lītīs
Ablative	līte	lītibus
Vocative	līs	lītēs

Derived terms

• lītigō

Descendants

• Italian: lite
• Portuguese: lide
• Spanish: lid

See also

• causa
• crīmen
• quaestiō
• rēs

References

• “lis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lis 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)
• lis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the case is still undecided: adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
    
  • to lose one's case: causā or lite cadere (owing to some informality)
    
  • chicanery (specially of wrongfully accusing an innocent man): calumniae litium (Mil. 27. 74)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to law with, sue a person: litem alicui intendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to win a case: causam or litem obtinere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose one's case: causam or litem amittere, perdere
    

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲɪs̪]

Verb

lìs

1. third-person singular future of lyti
2. third-person plural future of lyti

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lisъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

1. fox (Vulpini, especially the genus Vulpes)
2. (colloquial) fox fur

Declension

Declension of lis

	singular	plural
nominative	lis	lisy
genitive	lisa	lisów
dative	lisowi	lisom
accusative	lisa	lisy
instrumental	lisem	lisami
locative	lisie	lisach
vocative	lisie	lisy

Derived terms

• lisaty
• lisawy
• lisi
• lisiątko
• lisię
• lisiura
• lisowaty
• lisowczyk
• liszka

 

Noun

lis m pers

1. (colloquial) A clever or cunning person; fox.

Declension

Declension of lis

	singular	plural
nominative	lis	lisy
genitive	lisa	lisów
dative	lisowi	lisom
accusative	lisa	lisów
instrumental	lisem	lisami
locative	lisie	lisach
vocative	lisie	lisy

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Spanish

Noun

lis f (plural lises)

1. Synonym of lirio
2. Synonym of flor de lis