anís

• anis (Alghero)

Borrowed from Latin anīsum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

anís m (plural anisos)

1. anise, aniseed
2. small confection flavoured with anise
3. anisette (liqueur flavoured with anise)

• (plant): matafaluga
• (liqueur): aniset

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

From an- (“from”) +‎ ís (“below, under”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸīssu, from Proto-Indo-European *pedsú, locative plural of *pṓds (“foot”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aˈn͈ʲiːs/

anís

1. from below
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102^a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aīs sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

• Irish: aníos
• Manx: neese
• Scottish Gaelic: a-nis

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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• IPA^(key): /anís/

anís (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling انِس)

1. this person, this thing
2. it, him, her (prox acc)

• hanís (Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “anís”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Borrowed from French anis, from Latin anīsum, from Ancient Greek ἄνῑσον (ánīson).

• IPA^(key): /aˈnis/

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: a‧nís

anís m (uncountable)

1. anise

   Synonyms: matalahúva, matalahúga

2. (beverage) anise liquor, pure or combined

   Synonym: anisado

3. (euphemistic, Mexico) the anus (because of similar sound, compare ano)

• “anís”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10