bisse

Originally "beer", from Swedish bischoff (“wine-based cocktail”) (through words like bischofs-vin (“bishop's wine”)), from German Bischof.^[1] The sense "bisexual" is later adaptation by phonetic similarity.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbisːe/,
• Rhymes: -isːe
• Syllabification^(key): bis‧se

bisse

1. (colloquial) beer

   Synonym: olut

2. (slang) bisexual

   Synonym: biseksuaali

• bischofshofen (“beer”)

• “bisse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /bis/

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• Homophones: bissent, bisses

bisse

1. inflection of bisser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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bisse

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive II of beißen

• biche

From Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia. Doublet of beste.

bisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural bisses, nominative singular bisse, nominative plural bisses)

1. doe (female deer)
   • Wace, Le Roman de Rou

     Cum l'um prent bisse al piege

• Middle French: biche
  • French: biche

• cerf

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bisse, supplement)
• Etymology and history of “biche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.