lis

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.

lis

1. plural of li

From Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”).

lis

1. (law) The substance of a legal dispute.

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

From Dutch list, from Middle Dutch list, from Old Dutch list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

• IPA^(key): /ləs/

lis (plural liste)

1. A ruse, a trick, a cunning plan.

• listig

• IPA^(key): /lis/

From Serbo-Croatian (Ikavian) lȉs (“coffin; (dial.) lumber, wood(s), forest”), from Old Church Slavonic лѣсъ (lěsŭ, “wood(s), forest”) (compare Bulgarian лес (les)).[1][2] Alternatively, a formation related to lëndë, similar to the connection of vis with vend.[3]

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

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

• dushk

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

• bung, ilqe, qarr, shpardh

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”).

lis (first-person singular past tense lysa, participle lysur)

1. to pour

• lise

• lot

From Latin ille (“that one”).

lis

1. (to) them (indirect object)

• les

From French lis.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈlis/

lis m (plural lisos)

1. Sprekelia formosissima (Jacobean lily)

   Synonym: lliri azteca

• flor de lis

• “lis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪs]

lis m

1. press, machine press

   Synonym: pres

• lisovat

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

From Middle French lis, from Old French lis, generalised from the nominative singular and accusative plural of earlier lil, from Latin lilium. The final /s/ survives from the Middle French pausal pronunciation (as in fils, ours, os, tous, etc.), but fleur de lis was formerly also pronounced with /li/.

• IPA^(key): /lis/

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

lis m (plural lis)

1. lily

• lys

• fleur de lis
• lis de mer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /li/

lis

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

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

• ils, s'il

From Latin illas, accusative feminine plural of illae.

lis f pl (singular la)

1. the

• i

From French liste (“list”).

lis

1. list

• les

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪs]
• Hyphenation: lis

From Dutch lijst, from Italian lista, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *leizd (“band, border”).

lis

1. list, a register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

   Synonym: daftar

From Dutch lijst, from Middle Dutch lijste, from Old Dutch *līsta, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *leizd (“band, border”).

lis

1. frame, border.

   Synonym: bingkai

• “lis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Latin stlīs, from Proto-Italic *slītis (“accusation, dispute”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH-, related to Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”).[1]

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

līs f (genitive lītis); third declension

1. lawsuit, action
2. contention, strife, quarrel
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.29-30:

     līte vacent aurēs, īnsānaque prōtinus absint
     iūrgia; differ opus, līvida lingua, tuum!

     Let our ears be relieved from strife, and forthwith let maddening discords he far away; and thou envious tongue, postpone thy occupation.
     (Henry T. Riley, trans.: 1851 CE)

   Synonyms: rixa, certatus, iūrgium

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• lītigō

• Galician: lide
• Italian: lite
• Portuguese: lide
• Sicilian: liti
• Spanish: lid

• “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, 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
    

• IPA^(key): [lʲɪs̪]

lìs

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lisъ.

• IPA^(key): /lis/

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: lis
• Homophone: Lis

lis m anim (diminutive lisek, augmentative lisisko, feminine lisica)

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

lis m pers

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

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

Borrowed from French lisse.

lis m or n (feminine singular lisă, masculine plural liși, feminine and neuter plural lise)

1. smooth

Borrowed from French lis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlis/ [ˈlis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: lis

lis f (plural lises)

1. lily

   Synonym: lirio

2. fleur-de-lis

   Synonym: flor de lis

• “lis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014