nisi

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See also: nìsǐ, nisɨ, and Nísī

English

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Noun

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nisi (uncountable)

  1. (attributive) decree nisi
    The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /niˈsi/
  • Rhymes: -si
  • Hyphenation: ni‧sí

Noun

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nisi f (plural nisi, definite nisia, definite plural nisitë) (geography)

  1. (Arvanitika, archaic) island
    Synonyms: ishull, ujdhesë, ansujë
  2. (masculine) islander
    Synonyms: ishullar, ujdhesar

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Further reading

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  • “nisi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • nisi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “cangël”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 325

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From (not) +‎ (if). See also sine.

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Conjunction

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nisi

  1. if not, unless, except
    Synonyms: praeter, praeterquam
    De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
    [Say] nothing but good things about the dead.

Etymology 2

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Participle

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nīsī

  1. inflection of nīsus:
    1. masculine/neuter genitive singular
    2. masculine nominative/vocative plural

References

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  • nisi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nisi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nisi 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)
  • nisi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken: nisi fallor
    • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
    • (ambiguous) unless I'm greatly mistaken: nisi omnia me fallunt
    • (ambiguous) to except the fact that..: praeterquam quod or nisi quod

Maltese

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Root
n-s-j
11 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic نَسْي (nasy).

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Noun

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nisi m

  1. verbal noun of nesa: forgetting

Slovene

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Verb

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nísi

  1. negative second-person singular present of bíti

Tauya

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Noun

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nisi

  1. egg
    yene nisi : bird egg

References

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  • Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya