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Lis

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The substance of a legal dispute.
  3. 3
    plural of li form-of, plural
  4. 4
    Initialism of library and information science. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    plural of LI form-of, plural

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin lis (“quarrel, lawsuit”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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