Lis
noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Clipping of fleur-de-lis. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"[…] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle."
- 2 The substance of a legal dispute.
- 3 plural of li form-of, plural
- 4 Initialism of library and information science. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 5 plural of LI form-of, plural
Example
More examples"[…] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.