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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of disrespect.

Verb

dis (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of diss

Translations

Noun

dis (plural disses)

1. Alternative form of diss

Translations

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís.

Noun

dis (plural disir)

2. (Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.

   • In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.

   • A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir

   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 67)

     Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.

Etymology 3

Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation of this.

Alternative forms

• 'dis

Determiner

dis

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

Pronoun

dis

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

Anagrams

• DSI, I.D.s, IDS, IDs, ISD, SDI, SID, Sid, ids, sid, sid'

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• 'is (Cape Afrikaans)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/

Contraction

dis

1. Contraction of dit is (this's, that's, it's)

Derived terms

• dissie

Cimbrian

Pronoun

dis

1. (Sette Comuni) Alternative form of ditzan

References

• “dis” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Etymology

From Low German dis.

Noun

dis

1. (light) mist or haze

Verb

dis

1. imperative of disse

Dutch

Alternative forms

• disch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch disch, from Old Dutch disk, from Proto-Germanic *diskuz (“table; dish; bowl”), from Latin discus. Cognate with English dish and German Tisch (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/
• Hyphenation: dis
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: diss

Noun

dis m (plural dissen, diminutive disje n)

1. (dated) table

   Synonyms: tafel, berd

2. (rare) meal, dish

Derived terms

• bruiloftsdis
• dismeester
• feestdis
• opdissen

Finnish

Etymology

From German Dis (German key notation).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dis/, [?dis?]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: dis

Noun

dis

1. (music) D-sharp

Usage notes

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.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di/

Verb

dis

1. inflection of dire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second-person singular past historic
   3. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Verb

dis

1. second-person singular present indicative of dicir

German

Pronoun

dis

1. Obsolete spelling of dies

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Ladin

Noun

dis

1. plural of dì

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di?s/, [d?i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis/, [d?is]

Etymology 1

Contracted form of d?ves.

Adjective

d?s (genitive d?tis, comparative d?tior, superlative d?tissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. rich, wealthy

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of deus (“god”).

Noun

d?s

1. dative/ablative plural of deus

References

• dis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• dis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology 1

From French dix (“ten”).

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Etymology 2

From French dire (“to tell”), compare Haitian Creole di.

Verb

dis

1. to tell

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

dis

1. Alternative form of þis

Etymology 2

Noun

dis (plural dis or dises)

1. Alternative form of dees (“die”)

Noun

dis

1. Alternative form of dees: plural of dee (“die”)

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English this.

Determiner

dis

1. this

Norman

Verb

dis

1. first-person singular preterite of dithe

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ti?s/

Pronoun

d?s

1. locative of dii

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Low German dis

Noun

dis m (definite singular disen)

1. haze

Related terms

• disig

References

• “dis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Low German dis.

Noun

dis m (definite singular disen, uncountable)

1. haze

Related terms

• disen
• disig

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís f, form Proto-Germanic *d?siz (“(demi-)goddess; virgin”)

Noun

dis f (definite singular disa, indefinite plural diser, definite plural disene)

2. (Norse mythology) dis

Etymology 3

From De (“you (formal singular)”) modelled after the adjective dus.

Adjective

dis (singular and plural dis)

1. (about interpersonal relationships) having formal distance
2. (originally historically, formal) being on terms where one may address each other with the formal 2nd person singular pronoun De, as opposed to the more formal du.

Antonyms

• dus

References

• “dis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin decem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis/

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Descendants

• French: dix
• Norman: dgix, dix
• Walloon: dijh

Etymology 2

From the verb dire

Verb

dis

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis/

Noun

dis n (indeclinable)

1. (music) D sharp

Swedish

Etymology

From Low German dis (“haze”), of West Germanic origin (compare Dutch dijs (“mist, fog”), West Frisian diish), of uncertain origin; possibly from Middle Low German dûnster, from Old Saxon *thinstar, from Proto-West Germanic *þimstr (“dusky, dark”). If so, related to modern Dutch deemster (“twilight”).

Noun

dis n (uncountable)

1. haze; a thin fog
2. indefinite genitive singular of di

Declension

Synonyms

• dimslöja

Related terms

• disig

References

Anagrams

• sid

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English dish.

Noun

dis

1. dish; bowl

Volapük

Preposition

dis

1. under

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle English dees

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?s/

Noun

dis m or f (plural disiau or disau)

1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

Mutation

English

Noun

des

1. (medicine, colloquial) Desflurane.

Anagrams

• DSE, EDS, EDs, ESD, Esd., SDE, SED, eds, eds., sed

Catalan

Etymology 1

Contraction of de es

Contraction

des

1. Contraction of de and es.

Derived terms

• des de

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

des (obsolete)

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive form of dar
2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive form of dar

Cimbrian

Pronoun

des (Sette Comuni)

1. nominative/accusative singular neuter of dèar

See also

Determiner

des

1. (Sette Comuni) this, that

References

• “des” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Conjunction

des

1. the

Synonyms

• jo, desto

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/, (historic) /d?s/
• Hyphenation: des

Article

des

1. (archaic) genitive singular masculine/neuter of de (“the”)

Usage notes

• Note that normally only the nominative is used. The other forms are archaic, but survive in numerous idiomatic expressions such as des huizes, des morgens (itself archaic and shortened, like similar expressions, to 's morgens in contemporary Dutch).
• The current pronunciation is a spelling pronunciation. Before the word became archaic, it was pronounced with a schwa, /d?s/.

Inflection

Synonyms

• 's

Conjunction

des

1. the ... the (used as an intensifier to indicate the degree of an action)

East Central German

Etymology

Cognate to German des.

Article

des

1. (Silesian, Gebirgsschlesisch, Breslauisch, genitive) of the

Esperanto

Etymology

From German desto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des/
• Hyphenation: des
• Audio:

Particle

des

1. the; used with ju and either pli (“more”) or malpli (“less”) to form the second half of a coordinated comparative.
   • 1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138,

See also

• ju

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Hindi ??? (de?).

Noun

des

1. country

Finnish

Etymology

From German Des (German key notation).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?des/, [?de?s?]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: des

Noun

des

1. (music) D-flat

Usage notes

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.

Declension

French

Etymology

The use as an article is a special case of the contraction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de/

Article

des m pl or f pl

1. plural of un; some; the plural indefinite article.
2. plural of une; some; the plural indefinite article.
3. plural of du; some; the plural partitive article.
4. plural of de la; some; the plural partitive article.
5. plural of de l'; some; the plural partitive article.

Derived terms

• et des

Contraction

des

1. Contraction of de + les (of the, from the, some).

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Latin d? + ex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des/

Preposition

des

1. since
2. from (a location)

Derived terms

• des que
• desde

References

• “des” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “des” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/ (generally)
• IPA^(key): /d?s/ (when stressed, which is rare)

Alternative forms

• -'s

Article

des

1. genitive masculine/neuter singular of der: the

Declension

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese dez. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dés.

Numeral

des

1. ten (10)

Latin

Verb

d?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of d?

Middle Dutch

Article

des

1. masculine/neuter genitive singular of die

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

des

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Etymology 2

Noun

des

1. plural of de (“die”)

Noun

des

1. Alternative form of dees (“die”)

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin d? (“of”) + ex (“out of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des?/

Preposition

des

1. since (from a time)

   • q? mui de coraçon ?enpre a amou des men?nez

     who loved her very heartily since childhood

Descendants

• Galician: des

From des + de:

• Fala: desde
• Galician: desde
• Portuguese: desde

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin decem, from Proto-Italic *dekem. Cognates include Italian diece and French dix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des/

Numeral

des

1. ten

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin d?nsus (“dense; frequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”). Doublet of dens, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des/

Adjective

des m or n (feminine singular deas?, masculine plural de?i, feminine and neuter plural dese)

1. frequent, often
2. abundant, copious
3. dense, thick

Declension

Antonyms

• (frequent): rar

Derived terms

• desi?

Related terms

• îndesa

See also

• dens

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?des/, [?d?es]

Etymology 1

Noun

des

1. plural of de

Etymology 2

Verb

des

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of dar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of dar.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English desk.

Noun

des

1. desk

Welsh

Alternative forms

• deles (colloquial)
• deses (colloquial)
• dethes (colloquial)
• deuthum (literary)
• dois (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?s/

Verb

des

1. (colloquial) first-person singular preterite of dod

Mutation

Zazaki

Numeral

des ?

1. ten