cis

Abbreviation, presumably from either English cosine and sine and the number i or translingual cos, i, and sin.

cis

1. (mathematics) The function ${\displaystyle \mathrm {cis} (x)=\cos x+i\sin x}$.

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: sis

From Latin cis (“on the same side”).

cis (not comparable)

1. (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
2. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
3. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
   • 1984, American Chemical Society. Division of Polymer Chemistry, Papers Presented at the ... Meeting

     9 is thought to survive longer when the CH = CH bond is cis and to favour the formation of another cis double bond in a propagation reaction involving its displacement by monomer. 10, on the other hand, is more likely to yield a trans double bond […]

   • 2007, Vickie A. Vaclavik; Elizabeth W. Christian, Essentials of Food Science, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 277:

     However, a cis double bond causes a kink in the chain. (A cis double bond introduces a bend of about 42 into the linear hydrocarbon chain.)

   • 2015, William P Edwards, The Science of Bakery Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 26:

     A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side.

4. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other.

   The cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands.

• trans

A clipping of cisgender or of cissexual (from Latin cis).

• CIS (proscribed)

cis (not comparable)

1. Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.

Compare cis- and its usage notes.

• trans

• -ics, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, SIC, Sci., sci, sci., sic

cis

1. C-sharp

• cis in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• cis in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Ido cis, from Latin cis.

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• IPA^(key): [t͡sis]
• Hyphenation: cis

cis

1. (unofficial) on this side of[1][2]
   • 2003, Aleksander Korĵe (tr.), “Palto”, in Rusa novelaro‎, Kaliningrad: Sezonoj, translation of original by Nikolaj Gogol:

     ...la mortinta oficisto komencis aperi eĉ cis la ponto Kalinkin, kaŭzante grandan timon al ĉiuj malkuraĝuloj.

     ...the dead office worker began to appear even on this side of the Kalinkin bridge, causing great fear to all cowards.

   • 2010 September, Donald Broadribb, “Pri tramoj kaj tasoj da teo”, in Mirmekobo, number 10, page 24:

     Trans la strato, laŭ mia vidkapablo, troviĝas nur amaso da arboj; kaj cis, malnovaj mallarĝaj domoj kun komunaj muroj kaj nur etaj gazonoj, kvazaŭ oni devis enŝovi ilin pro manko de spaco.

     Across the street, as far as I can see, is found only a mass of trees; and on this side, little old houses with common walls and only small lawns, as if one had to shove into them for lack of space.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cis.

   Ili loĝas cis tiuj montoj. ― They live on this side of those mountains.

   Synonyms: ĉi-flanke de, maltrans

   Antonym: trans

• apud (“beside”)

From German Cis (German key notation).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsis/, [ˈs̠is̠]

cis

1. (music) C-sharp

• Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.
• In speech, the declension is often: cissän, cissää, simiar to ässä.

Borrowed from Latin cis.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sis/

cis

1. on this side of (anything)

   Cis la rivero la tereno esas pasable sika.

   On this side of the river the terrain is pretty dry.

• trans (“on the other side of, beyond, across”)

• cisa (“hither (on this side)”)
• cise (“(on) this side”)
• cisalpa (“cisalpine”)
• cis-

• Esperanto: cis

cis (uncountable)

1. C sharp

From Middle Irish ces (“basket, hamper, pannier; bee-hive, skep; causeway of hurdles”), from Old Norse kesja, Latin cista.

• IPA^(key): [cɪʃ]

cis f (genitive singular cise, nominative plural ciseanna)

1. wicker container; basket, crate
2. plaited or crossed twigs as support for causeway

• ceas f

cis f (genitive singular cise)

1. restraint; (golf) handicap

• ciseadóireacht f (“wicker-work; basketry”)

cis (present analytic ciseann, future analytic cisfidh, verbal noun ciseadh, past participle ciste) (transitive, intransitive)

1. stand, place one's weight (ar (“on”))
2. restrain
3. (sports) handicap

• cisigh

• cisí m (“handicapper”)

• → Yola: kishe, kish

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ces”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Unadapted borrowing from English cis.

cis (invariable)

1. cis

• -isc-, ics, sci

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”). Cognate with ce-dō, hi-c, ec-ce, Ancient Greek ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos, “that”), Old Irish cē (“here”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰 (himma, “to this”). More at he, here.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kis/, [kɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃis/, [t͡ʃis]

cis (+ accusative)

1. on or to this or the near side of; short of
2. before

• uls

• citer

• “cis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cis 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)
• cis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

cis

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of chis

Unknown; probably related to ċēosan.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːs/

ċīs

1. fussy (in eating)

• Middle English: chis, chys, chyse; cis

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “cís”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “cīs”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, OCLC 213811593.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tisъ, from Proto-Indo-European *taḱs-.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕis/

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: cis

cis m inan

1. yew
2. (singular only) wood of the yew

Note: genitive singular form "cisa" can be used only for sense #1.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: cis

cis n

1. C sharp

• cis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

cis (invariable)

1. cis, cisgender
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cis.

cis (invariable)

1. cis, cisgender

• mujer cis