lipti

• Hyphenation: lip‧ti

lipti

1. the trout sweetlips (Plectorhinchus pictus)
2. the painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lipti.

• pilit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lip-, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”). Cognate with Latvian lipt (“to stick”), Proto-Slavic *lьnǫti (“to stick”).^[1]

lìpti (third-person present tense lim̃pa, third-person past tense lìpo)

1. to stick, adhere to

   Synonyms: kibti, klijuotis

   • 1919, Antanas Petrika, Atmosfera arba oro gazai ir jų ypatybės‎, →OCLC:

     musų apatiniai drabužiai limpa prie odos

     our underwear sticks to the skin

2. (figuratively) to cling to, be attracted to
   • 1902, Jonas Biliūnas, “Klebonas”, in Ūkininkas, number 8:

     Prie lietuviškos duonos visi kaip musės prie medaus limpa!

     Everyone clings to Lithuanian bread like flies to honey.

From the same origin as Etymology 1. Compare Latvian lipt (“to climb”).^[1]

lìpti (third-person present tense lìpa, third-person past tense lìpo)

1. to climb

   Synonym: kopti

   • 1906, Jonas Biliūnas, “Piestupys”, in Lietuvos ūkininkas, number 20:

     Atsargiai perėjova upelį ir pradėjova lipti ant kalno.

     They carefully crossed the stream and started to climb the hill.

• “lipti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025