nisi

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See also: nìsǐ, nisɨ, and Nísī

English

Noun

nisi (uncountable)

  1. (attributive) decree nisi
    The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.

See also

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niˈsi/
  • Rhymes: -si
  • Hyphenation: ni‧sí

Noun

nisi f (plural nisi, definite nisia, definite plural nisitë) (geography)

  1. (Arvanitika, archaic) island
    Synonyms: ishull, ujdhesë, ansujë
  2. (masculine) islander
    Synonyms: ishullar, ujdhesar

Declension

Declension of nisi
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative nisi nisi nisia nisitë
accusative nisinë
dative nisie nisive nisisë nisivet
ablative nisish

Further reading

  • “nisi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “nisi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “cangël”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 325

Latin

Etymology 1

From nī (“not”) +‎ sī (“if”). See also sine.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Conjunction

nisi

  1. if not, unless, except
    Synonyms: praeter, praeterquam
    • Nil nisi bonum (de mortuis dicere).
      (Of the dead say) nothing but good.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Participle

nīsī

  1. inflection of nīsus:
    1. masculine/neuter genitive singular
    2. masculine nominative/vocative plural

References

  • “nisi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nisi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nisi 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)
  • nisi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken: nisi fallor
    • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
    • (ambiguous) unless I'm greatly mistaken: nisi omnia me fallunt
    • (ambiguous) to except the fact that..: praeterquam quod or nisi quod

Maltese

Root
n-s-j
11 terms

Etymology

From Arabic نَسْي (nasy).

Pronunciation

Noun

nisi m

  1. verbal noun of nesa: forgetting

Slovene

Pronunciation

Verb

nísi

  1. negative second-person singular present of bíti

Tauya

Noun

nisi

  1. egg
    yene nisi : bird egg

References

  • Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya
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