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

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

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

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 ‘pubescent 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

lis m (plural lisos)

1. Sprekelia formosissima (Jacobean lily)

lis m

1. press, machine press

• pres

• lisovat

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

From Latin lilium

• lys

• IPA^(key): /lis/

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

lis m (plural lis)

1. lily

Inflected forms

• IPA^(key): /li/

lis

1. first-person singular present indicative of lire
2. second-person singular present indicative of lire
3. second-person singular present imperative of lire

• ils, s'il

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

From Latin illas, accusative feminine plural of illae.

lis f pl (singular la)

1. the

• i

From French liste (“list”).

lis

1. list

From Old Latin stlīs, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH-.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liːs/

līs f (genitive lītis); third declension

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

Third declension i-stem.

• lītigō

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

• causa
• crīmen
• quaestiō
• rēs

• 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, 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

From Proto-Slavic *lisъ.

• IPA^(key): /lʲis/

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

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

• (nouns) lisię, lisiątko, lisiura, lisowczyk, liszka
• (adjectives) lisi, lisaty, lisawy, lisowaty

lis m pers

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

• lis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

lis f (plural lises)

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