dis

English

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dis

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

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.
   • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, E Lumley, page 116:

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

   • 1993, Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, page 113:

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

   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 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 with th-stopping of this.

Alternative forms

• 'dis

Determiner

dis

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

Pronoun

dis

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

See also

• dis legomenon (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• 'is (Cape Afrikaans)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəs/

• Audio

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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): /dɪs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dis
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• 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): /ˈdis/,
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification^(key): 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

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di/

• Audio

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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
2. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of dizer

German

Pronoun

dis

1. Obsolete spelling of dies

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis/

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Ladin

Noun

dis

1. plural of dì

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis/,

Etymology 1

Contracted form of dīves.

Adjective

dīs (genitive dītis, comparative dītior, superlative dītissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. rich, wealthy

   Synonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, ditis, locuples

   Antonyms: pauper, egens, inops, exiguus

   • Julius Caesar, Commentarii De Bello Gallico, I.ii :

     Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix.

     By far the noblest and wealthiest man among the Helvetii was Orgetorix.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• dītēscō
• dītiae

Etymology 2

Inflected form of deus (“god”).

Noun

dīs

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
    
  • (ambiguous) to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus
    
  • (ambiguous) with the help of the gods: dis bene iuvantibus (Fam. 7. 20. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to sacrifice: rem divinam facere (dis)
    
• “dis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French dix (“ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis/
• Rhymes: -is

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Usage notes

• This word is used independently of nouns.
• When preceding nouns, di is used for consonant-initial words, and diz is used for vowel-initial words. Compare French etymon dix.

Related terms

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French dix.

Numeral

dis

1. ten

Middle Dutch

Determiner

dis

1. neuter genitive singular of dese

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): /ˈtiːs/

Pronoun

dīs

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

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

dis

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From German Low German dis.

Noun

dis m (definite singular disen, uncountable)

1. haze

Related terms

• disen
• disig

Etymology 2

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

diser

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Old Norse dís f, form Proto-Germanic *dīsiz (“(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. having formal distance (of interpersonal relationships)
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; dyis
• 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/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: dis

Noun

dis n (indeclinable)

1. (music) D sharp

Further reading

• dis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

Declension

Synonyms

• dimslöja

Related terms

• disig
• soldis
• torrdis

References

Further reading

• dis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• dis in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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): /diːs/

Noun

dis m or f (plural disiau or disau)

1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

Mutation