"lis" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈliːs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈlis] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Old Latin stlīs, slīs, perhaps with unusual reduction from Proto-Italic *slītis (“accusation, dispute”), from Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, possibly from a root Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH- (“to accuse”); cognate with Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|itc-ola|stlīs}} Old Latin stlīs, {{inh|la|itc-pro||*slītis|accusation, dispute}} Proto-Italic *slītis (“accusation, dispute”), {{inh|la|ine-pro|*slíHtis|*sliH-ti-}} Proto-Indo-European *sliH-ti-, {{der|la|ine-pro|*(s)leyH-||to accuse}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyH- (“to accuse”), {{cog|sga|liid||accuse, charge}} Old Irish liid (“accuse, charge”) Head templates: {{la-noun|līs<3.I>|g=f}} līs f (genitive lītis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|līs<3.I>}} Forms: līs [canonical, feminine], lītis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], līs [nominative, singular], lītēs [nominative, plural], lītis [genitive, singular], lītium [genitive, plural], lītī [dative, singular], lītibus [dative, plural], lītem [accusative, singular], lītēs [accusative, plural], lītīs [accusative, plural], līte [ablative, singular], lītibus [ablative, plural], līs [singular, vocative], lītēs [plural, vocative]
  1. lawsuit, action Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-lis-la-noun-Bf2KIcGi Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Law Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 58 42 Disambiguation of Law: 100 0
  2. contention, strife, quarrel Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: rixa, certatus, iūrgium
    Sense id: en-lis-la-noun-5TWFm53Q Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lītigō Related terms: causa, crīmen, quaestiō, rēs
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "ipa": "[ˈliːs]",
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      "word": "crīmen"
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    },
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      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.