bis

• IPA^(key): /baɪz/

bis

1. plural of bi

From Latin bis (“twice”).

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

bis (not comparable)

1. Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

• BSI, IBS, IBs, SIB, sib

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis ?

1. encore (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete)

bis

1. used to request an encore

bis f

1. meadow, lawn

• (diminutive) bisle

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

bis c

1. genitive singular indefinite of bi

From Latin bis.

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. encore!

From Hindi बीस (bīs).

bis

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis m pl or f pl

1. plural of bi

From Latin bysseus (“cotton-coloured”); cf. Italian bigio.

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis (feminine singular bise, masculine plural bis, feminine plural bises)

1. beige (colour)
2. brown (of bread that contains bran)

From Latin bis (“twice”)

• (adverb) IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. again (a second time); encore
2. (in street numbering or law) a; designating a second thing with the same number.

   12 bis, rue des Carmelites ― 12A, rue des Carmelites

bis (invariable)

1. alternative, secondary

bis m (plural bis)

1. encore

bis

1. used to request an encore

• bisser (“to ask for an encore; to do an encore”)
• itinéraire bis (“detour”)

From bise

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis m (plural bis)

1. (Quebec) kiss

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

From Middle High German biz, from bī ze. Equivalent to modern bei and zu. Compare Saterland Frisian bit (“until”).

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

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• Homophone: Biss
• Rhymes: -ɪs

bis

1. (subordinating, temporal) until

   Wir warten hier, bis das Gewitter vorbei ist.

   We'll wait here until the thunderstorm is over.

2. (coordinating) to

   Ich arbeite 40 bis 50 Stunden in der Woche.

   I work 40 to 50 hours a week.

   Ihre Haare sind braun bis dunkelbraun.

   Her hair is brown to dark brown.

bis

1. (temporal) until, to, (US) through

   Meine Tochter ist bis zwei Uhr in der Schule.

   My daughter is at school until two o'clock.

   Ich war von Montag bis Freitag krank.

   I was sick from Monday to Friday.

2. (temporal) by

   Die Aufgabe muss bis Donnerstag fertig sein.

   The task must be complete by Thursday.

3. (local) to; all the way to

   Der Zug fährt bis Köln.

   The train goes to Cologne.

• The temporal preposition bis can be followed by temporal adverbs of all kind: bis nachmittags (“until afternoon”), bis jetzt (“until now”). Moreover it can be followed by times, dates, holidays, days of the week, months, or years. The words Woche (“week”), Monat (“month”), and Jahr (“year”), as well as the names of days and months may also be preceded by letzter, voriger, dieser, kommender, or nächster. For example: bis letzte Woche (“until last week”); bis nächsten Freitag (“by next Friday”).
• The local preposition bis can be followed by local adverbs of all kind (e.g. bis hier (“over here”)) and by place names (see above).
• In other cases, bis must be followed by another preposition, most commonly zu (“to”): bis zum Sommer (“until summer”); bis zum ersten Freitag im neuen Jahr (“by the first Friday of the new year”); bis zum Hauptbahnhof (“to the main station”). This means that bis is never directly followed by a definite or indefinite article. Sometimes other prepositions may also be used after bis: Er ging bis ans Ufer. (“He went close to the shore”).

• bis auf

Borrowed from Dutch bus.

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis (plural bis-bis, first-person possessive bisku, second-person possessive bismu, third-person possessive bisnya)

1. bus

From Latin bis (“twice”)

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis m

1. encore
2. repetition
3. duo (two varieties as a unit)

   Un bis di baccalà

   Two varieties of salt cod

bis (invariable)

1. additional

An adverb for duis, from duo (“two”), as b is often interchanged with du in word-initial position in Latin (in the same way as duellum for bellum (“war”), duonus for bonus (“good”) etc.).

Before that, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“in two, twice, doubly”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”); compare Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “dis”), Sanskrit द्विस् (dvis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bis/, [bɪs]

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bis (not comparable)

1. twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.9:

     Me torret face mutua / Thurini Calais filius Ornyti, / pro quo bis patiar mori, / si parcent puero fata superstiti.

     I love my own fond lover, / Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus: / For him I'd die twice over, / Would Fate but spare the sweet survivor thus.

   Falli bis.

   To be deceived twice.

   Familia mea bis in hebdomade ad ecclesiam it.

   My family goes to the church twice a week.

• The word bis (“twice”) drops the s when making compositions, like the Greek word δίς (dís, “dis”). Some words created by compositing include biceps, bidens, bifer, bigener, bīga, bilix. Because the s is dropped, it's better to write the words like bissenus, bisseni and bissextus as two words- bis senus, bis seni and bis sextus.

• bis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
    
  • twice consul: bis consul
    
• bis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. until (something becomes true)

   Mir waarde mam Iessen, bis datt eis Gäscht all ukomm sinn.

   We are waiting with the food until all our guests have arrived.

2. between ... and

   Zeideg Quidde moosse 7 bis 12 Zentimeter laang.

   Mature quinces measure between 7 and 12 centimetres long.

bis

1. until (a certain time)

   D'Metzlerei ass bis fënnef Auer nomëttes op.

   The butcher's is open until five in the afternoon.

2. up to, to

   Hire Jong ka scho bis zéng zielen.

   Their son can already count up to ten.

A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects).

bis

1. Alternative form of bith

• IPA^(key): [pɪ̀s]

bis

1. adobe, clay, clod, cake of dirt

• IPA^(key): /bʲis/

bis m inan

1. encore

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbis/, /ˈbiʃ/
• Rhymes: -is

From Latin bis (“twice”).

bis (not comparable)

1. bis (shows that something is to be repeated)

bis m (plural bis)

1. encore (brief extra performance)
2. (by extension, informal) a second serving of something

• bisar

bis!

1. encore! (used by an audience to request a second performance)

bis m or f

1. plural of bi

bis

1. indefinite genitive singular of bi