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See also: List, -list, līst, лист, and ліст

English

The white printed strip is the selvage of a piece of cloth. Such selvage is sometimes made with list (sense 2)
A list (sense 3) of the Roman Catholic popes buried in St. Peter’s Basilica on a plaque at the entrance to the Sacristy

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Etymology 1

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.), from Old English līste (hem, edge, strip), or Old French liste, listre (border; band; strip of paper; list), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (to trace, track).

Noun

list (plural lists)

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
    • 1871 September 18, “The Jewish New Year”, in The Jewish Herald: A Record of Christian Effort for the Salvation of Israel, London: John Snow & Co., ; and the British Society , , published 1 November 1871, →OCLC, page 174:
      Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.
    • 1893, A Conan Doyle, “The Naval Treaty”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, , January 1950, →OCLC, page 255:
      "How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers."
  3. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
  4. (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
  5. (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
    • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way:
      The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
  6. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
    • 1985 March 10, Ed Acly, “A Tale of Three Languages: C, Ada & Lisp”, in Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XIX, number 12, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page ID/10, columns 1–2:
      Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program.
  7. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
    • 1788, , “STRIÆ”, in The Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &c. ">…], new edition, London: Printed for E. Newbery, , →OCLC, page 284:
      STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
    • 1876, Edward Shaw, Thomas W Silloway, George M Harding, “Introduction”, in Civil Architecture; being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building, Containing the Fundamental Principles of the Art.  To which is Added a Treatise on Gothic Architecture, etc., by Thomas W. Silloway and George M. Harding, Architects.">…], 11th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird & Co., , →OCLC, page 22, column 2:
      A volute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, the list or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane. n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from the list of another by a vacuity or aperture.
  8. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
  9. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  10. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  11. (obsolete) A stripe.
  12. (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.
    • c. 1597 (date written), , The History of Henrie the Fourth; , quarto edition, London: P S for Andrew Wise, , published 1598, →OCLC, :
      ere it good / to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre? / It were not good for therein ſhould we read / The very bottome and the ſoule of hope, / The very liſt, the very vtmost bound / Of all our fortunes.
      Is it good / to place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour? / No, it would be no good for we would read into it that we had reached / The end of our hope, / The very limit, the very utmost boundary / Of all our luck.
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Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
  2. (transitive) To place in listings.
    • 1993, Ooi Jin Bee, “The Tropical Rain Forest: Patterns of Exploitation and Trade”, in Tropical Deforestation: The Tyranny of Time, Singapore: Singapore University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
      As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value.
  3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
  4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
    to list a door
  5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
  6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
  7. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
    to list a board
  8. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
  10. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  11. To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
    • 2021 February 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The London Underground Operational Enhancement Award: Hanwell”, in RAIL, number 946, page 55:
      A century later, BR demolished the downside main buildings, so the eastbound and central platforms were promptly listed - which has ensured their survival, albeit increasingly neglected in recent years. This has now been rectified, .
  12. (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
    • 2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
      Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to list in New York in the face of US political opposition.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English list, liste (ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token), from Old English list (art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (art, craft), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (furrow, trace, track, trail).

The word is cognate with Dutch list (artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem), German List (cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick), Low German list (artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom), Icelandic list (art), Saterland Frisian list (cunning, knowledge), Scots list (art, craft, skill; cunning), Swedish list (art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth), and possibly Spanish listo (clever). It is also related to learn, lore.

Noun

list (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
    • 1877 November 16, “Vaticanism”, in The Literary World. Choice Readings from the Best New Books, and Critical Reviews, volume XVI, number 420 (New Series), London: James Clarke & Co., , →OCLC, page 313, column 3:
      In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
    • 1893, S C Malan, chapter XXVI, in Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs. Mostly from Eastern Writings, volumes III (Ch. xxi.–xxxi.), London: Williams and Norgate, , →OCLC, page 349:
      Sophos, fab 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."
    • 1897, Lilian Winser, “Lossenbury Woods”, in Lays and Legends of the Weald of Kent, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 44:
      For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full of list.
    • 1990, Alexander L. Ringer, “The Rise of Urban Musical Life between the Revolutions, 1789–1848”, in Alexander Ringer, editor, The Early Romantic Era: Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 (Man and Music; 6), Basingstoke, Hampshire, London: The Macmillan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, figure 13, caption, page 22:
      'The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List Liszt]' (List = cunning); anonymous lithograph (c 1842).
    • 1992, Reading Medieval Studies: Annual Proceedings of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Reading, : Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92:
      Pleier provides a 'courtly corrective' to Daniel in the shape of his hero, Garel. The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess,
    • 2000, Jakov Ljubarskij, “John Kinnamos as a Writer”, in Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, editors, ΠΟΛΥΠΛΕΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΥΣ : Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag (Byzantinisches Archiv ; 19), Munich, Leipzig: K G Saur, →ISBN, footnote 11, page 166:
      It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel , as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list" .
    • 2008, Jon B. Sherman, The Magician in Medieval German Literature (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Urbana, Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, →OCLC:
      One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan (to listen), from hlyst (hearing), from Proto-West Germanic *hlusti, from Proto-Germanic *hlustiz (hearing).

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
    • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 359, column 1:
      2 Peace, what noiſe? / 1 Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre.
    • 1860–1861, “What of the Night?”, in Frank Moore, editor, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., volume II, New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam, , published 1862, →OCLC, page 96, column 1:
      We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
    • 1865, Sophocles, “Philoctetes”, in E H Plumptre, transl., The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Alexander Strahan, publisher, →OCLC, page 247, line 1267:
      Be of good cheer, and list to what I speak.
  2. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
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Etymology 4

From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (to choose, desire, wish (to do something)), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (pleasure).

The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (to wish for, desire, crave), West Frisian lêste (to like, desire), Dutch lusten (to appreciate, like; to lust), German lüsten, gelüsten (to desire, want, crave), Danish lyste (to desire, feel like, want), Faroese lysta (to desire).

The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
  2. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
    • 2016, Graydon Saunders, chapter 13, in Safely You Deliver:
      Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world?
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Noun

list

  1. (obsolete) Desire, inclination.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice.  (First Quarto), London: N O for Thomas Walkley, , published 1622, →OCLC, , page 24:
      I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
      I know, too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
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Etymology 5

Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.

Noun

list (plural lists)

  1. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
  2. (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
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Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
    the steady wind listed the ship
  2. (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
    the ship listed to port
    • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 173:
      Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
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References

  1. ^ lī̆st(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ^ list(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 June 2018.
  3. ^ listen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.
  4. ^ list, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.
  5. ^ list”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  6. ^ William Long (2005 November 6) “List..the Word II”, in Drbilllong.com, archived from the original on 20 April 2012.
  7. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “list, n. 3”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 24 June 2018.

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Chinese

Etymology

From English list.

Pronunciation


  • Also pronounced as IPA(key): /lɪs⁵⁵/

Noun

list

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) list; enumeration or compilation of items; the paper or document of which the list is written or printed on (Classifier: c;  c;  c)

Verb

list

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to list; to create a list of items

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech list, from Proto-Slavic *listъ (leaf).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m inan (diminutive lístek)

  1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
  2. (archaic) letter (written message)
    Synonyms: dopis, psaní
  3. sheet (sheet of paper)
  4. newspaper
    Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)
  5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)
    rodný listbirth certificate
    úmrtní listdeath certificate

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (craft, art, guide).

Pronunciation

Noun

list c (singular definite listen, not used in plural form)

  1. cunning, trick

Verb

list

  1. imperative of liste

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch list, from Old Dutch list, from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

list f (plural listen, diminutive listje n)

  1. a cunning plan, a ruse, a trick

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Descendants

  • Afrikaans: lis
  • Negerhollands: list

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

list f (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

Declension

f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listini listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

list f (genitive singular listar, nominative plural listir)

  1. art
    Þetta er ekki list!
    That's not art!
  2. skill
    Hann bjó til brúðkaupstertu af mikilli list
    he made a wedding tart with great skill

Declension

Declension of list (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listinni listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *listъ (leaf).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m inan (diminutive listk)

  1. leaf, foliage
  2. letter (a written message)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse list.

Noun

list m or f (definite singular lista or listen)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness
  2. skirting board

Etymology 2

Verb

list

  1. imperative of liste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse list.

Noun

list f (definite singular lista)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

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Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

list m inan

  1. leaf (part of a plant)
  2. sheet; page (flat, thin piece of parchment n. other material intended for writing)
  3. (biblical) phylactery (box with scrolls of Old Testament quotations, attached by Jews to the forehead n. to the forearm during prayer)
  4. letter (written or printed communication)
  5. (administration) letter; deed (administrative document authorizing something n. testifying to something)
  6. (anatomy) uvula
  7. letter (character of writing)
  8. sheet, place; slice (long piece of i.e. metal)
  9. (singular only) plates (protective clothing of the upper part of the torso)

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Noun

list m or f

  1. ruse, trick

Inflection

Descendants

References

  • list”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *listi. Cognate with Old Saxon list, Dutch list, Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m or f

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

Declension

Strong i-stem:

Strong ō-stem:

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /lʲist/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /lʲist/

Noun

list m inan (related adjective listowy)

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) leaf (part of a plant)
    • 1939 , Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego , pages 1, 4:
      A bødze (sc. mąż) iaco drzewo, iesz szczepono iest podlug czekøcych wod..., a list iego ne spadne (folium eius non defluet)
    • 1930 , “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 8, 11:
      Genze (sc. gołąbek) *szo zaszø wroczyl s olywowim zzelonim listem w swich vszczyech (portans ramum olivae virentibus foliis in ore suo)
    • 1930 , “Lev”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 23, 40:
      Weszmyecze sobye... lyst palmovi (spatulas palmarum) a rosgy z drzewa gøstich latorosly
    • 1878-1889 , Archiwum Komisji Historycznej, volume III, Greater Poland, page 350:
      Te... stirpi Godzambą... aggregamus... In cuius signum... tibi... largimur tres pinus... in scuto seu campo flaueo, galea vero in inferiori parte listi supertecta
  2. (attested in Lesser Poland, Silesia) letter (written correspondance)
  3. (law, attested in Greater Poland) legal document (something that establishes or confirms something)
    • 1959 , Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty poznańskie, volume I, number 79, Poznań:
      akom przi tem bil, isz Micolay slubil mi list czicz, isz gim sze zaluge
      akom przy tem był, iż Mikołaj ślubił mi list cić, iż jim sie żałuje]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 136r:
      Tenor obmavyanye Inde dicimus: Tenore presencium obmavyanym nynyeschych lystow vel podlvg vylozenya nynyeyschych lystow
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 65r:
      Inclusiue computando a data presencium lato pyrzve y poslednye lyczacz od vydanya thego tho lysthą
  4. sheet (piece of paper)

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Old Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ. First attested in 1407.

Noun

list m inan

  1. leaf (part of a plant)
  2. scale; petal
  3. sheet (rectangular piece of paper intended for writing)
  4. letter (written message addressed to a person, office, institution)
  5. (administration, law) official document
  6. sheet (material on which things are fixed)
  7. thin plate or sheet (piece of i.e. metal)

Descendants

References

  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “list”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

list f

  1. skill, proficiency
  2. art, craft
  3. cunning, slyness
  4. resort

Declension

Declension of list (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listi(r), -e(r) listina(r), listena(r)
accusative list listina, -ena listi(r), -e(r) listina(r), listena(r)
dative list listinni, -inne listum, -om listumin, -omen
genitive lista(r) listinna(r) lista listanna

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Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish list. Sense 3 was displaced by liść.

Noun

list m inan (diminutive liścik, related adjective listowy)

  1. letter (written or printed communication)
  2. letter (paper on which such a communication is written)
  3. (obsolete) leaf (part of a plant)
  4. (obsolete) petal; slice; plaque; layer (long, flat piece of something)
    1. (Middle Polish) sheet (long, flat piece of paper)
  5. (obsolete, in the plural) leaves (pages of a book)
  6. (obsolete) paper tracking financial interest
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), list is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 18 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 32 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 567th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

list f

  1. genitive plural of lista

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “list”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 220

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic листъ (listŭ).

Noun

list n (plural listuri)

  1. (obsolete) leaf, page

Declension

Declension of list
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative list listul listuri listurile
genitive-dative list listului listuri listurilor
vocative listule listurilor

References

  • list in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *listъ (leaf).

Pronunciation

Noun

lȋst m (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст, diminutive lìstić)

  1. leaf
    Synonym: lȉska
  2. (computing) leaf
  3. sheet (of paper or other material manufactured in thin sheets)
  4. a special purpose certificate (any official document attesting a fact, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.)
  5. newsletter, newspaper
  6. (obsolete) letter (written message)
  7. calf (leg part)
  8. sole, flatfish (fish species)
  9. (card games) leaves

Declension

Declension of list
singular plural
nominative lȋst lȉstovi
genitive lista lȉstōvā
dative listu listovima
accusative list listove
vocative listu listovi
locative listu listovima
instrumental listom listovima

See also

German suits in Serbo-Croatian · njemačke boje, nemačke boje, mađarske boje (layout · text)
crvena, srce bundeva, tikva zelena, zelje, list žir

Further reading

  • list”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • list”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish list.

Pronunciation

Noun

list m inan (diminutive listek)

  1. letter (written or printed communication)
    Synonyms: brif, pismo
  2. document
    Synonyms: akt, dokumynt, papiōr, świadectwo, zaświadczynie

Declension

Declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listōw
dative listowi listōm
accusative list listy
instrumental listym listami/listōma
locative liście listach
vocative liście listy

Derived terms

Further reading

Slovak

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Wikipedia sk

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak list, from Proto-Slavic *listъ (leaf).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m inan (diminutive lístok)

  1. letter; a written message
  2. leaf; a part of a tree
  3. sheet; a piece of paper

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Slovene

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Wikipedia sl

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *listъ (leaf).

Pronunciation

Noun

lȋst m inan

  1. piece of paper
  2. leaf
  3. sole
  4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. líst
gen. sing. lísta
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
líst lísta lísti
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
lísta lístov lístov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
lístu lístoma lístom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
líst lísta líste
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
lístu lístih lístih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
lístom lístoma lísti

Further reading

  • list”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • list”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish list, from Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs-. Cognate with Icelandic list.

Noun

list c

  1. smartness, trick, cunning
Declension

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish lista, probably from Middle Low German lîste, from Old Saxon *līsta, from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ. Cognate with Danish liste, Icelandic lista.

Noun

list c

  1. a long, thin strip (of wood (or metal or the like), to conceal a joint (or for isolation or decoration), like for example a thin and long board), a border, a beading, edging
  2. (graphical user interface) a bar
Declension
Derived terms

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References

Anagrams

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lȋstъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlist/
  • Rhymes: -ist
  • Hyphenation: lis
  • Syllabification: list

Noun

list m inan

  1. letter (writing that addresses someone)
  2. certificate, ticket, bill, note

Declension

References

  • list” in Soblex