dis

Abbreviation of English Dimasa.

dis

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dimasa.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dimasa terms

• IPA^(key): /dɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophones: dis-, diss, dys-

Abbreviation of disrespect.

dis (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of diss.
   • 1995 July, Bob Ickes, “Die, Computer, Die!”, in New York, →ISSN, page 24:

     Yet the neo-Luddite resistance is remarkably disparate. Some flee to the woods; others, taking a less courageous stand, are content to dis the microwave oven and cellular phone.

dis (plural disses)

1. Alternative form of diss.

Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís.

dis (plural disir)

2. (Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
   • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, E Lumley, page 116:

     In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.

   • 1993, Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, page 113:

     A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir

   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 67:

     Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.

Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation with th-stopping of this.

• 'dis

dis

1. (nonstandard, dialectical, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, Ireland, foreign accents or humorous) Pronunciation spelling of this.
   • 1834 September 27, Anonymous, "West Indies: Spanish Town, Aug. 2, 1834", Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. XLVII (Vol. XI, 4th Ser.), p. 58:

     At another dinner, the president, on the removal of the cloth, rose and said... We will conduct weself in sich a manner, dat massa will neber be sorry for what him do dis night.

dis

1. (nonstandard, dialectical, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, Ireland, foreign accents or humorous) Pronunciation spelling of this.

   Whadda I do? Dis an' dat.

• dis legomenon (etymologically unrelated)

• IDs, SDI, sid, I-Ds, ISD, DSI, IDS, ids, sid', Sid, SID, I.D.s

• (Myanmar) /di˧˩/
• (Longchuan) [tə⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [tɤ⁵⁵]

dis

1. rich

   dis soeu

   rich man

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 26

• 'is (Cape Afrikaans)

• IPA^(key): /dəs/

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dis

1. contraction of dit +‎ is (this's, that's, it's)

• dissie

dis

1. this

dis

1. alternative form of dieu

Can be used in Valencia in place of dieu.

dis

1. (Sette Comuni) alternative form of ditzan

• “dis” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Low German dis.

dis c (singular definite disen, not used in plural form)

1. (light) mist or haze

dis

1. imperative of disse

• “dis” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch disch, from Old Dutch disk, from Proto-Germanic *diskuz (“table; dish; bowl”), from Latin discus. Cognate with English dish and German Tisch (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪs/

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• Hyphenation: dis
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: diss

dis m (plural dissen, diminutive disje n)

1. (dated) laid table

   Synonyms: tafel, berd

2. (rare) meal, dish

• disch (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /dis/
• Rhymes: -is

dis f (plural dissen, diminutive disje n)

1. (music) D-sharp

From German Dis (German key notation).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis/, [ˈdis̠]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification^(key): dis
• Hyphenation^(key): dis

dis

1. (music) D-sharp

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

• IPA^(key): /di/

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dis

1. inflection of dire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second-person singular past historic
   3. second-person singular imperative

dis

1. second-person singular present indicative of dicir
2. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of dizer

dis

1. obsolete spelling of dies

From French dix.

• IPA^(key): /dis/

dis

1. ten

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[3], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 52

dis

1. plural of dì

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdis]

Contraction of dīves ~ dīvitis. Compare the fourth conjugation perfect -ī from -īvī.

dīs (genitive dītis, comparative dītior, superlative dītissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (first mostly poetic, then in prose chiefly from post-Augustan Latin)

1. alternative form of dīves
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix.

     By far the noblest and wealthiest man among the Helvetii was Orgetorix.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Inflected form of deus (“god”).

dīs m

1. dative/ablative plural of deus

• “dīs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dīs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "dis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
    
  • (ambiguous) to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus
    
  • (ambiguous) with the help of the gods: dis bene iuvantibus (Fam. 7. 20. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to sacrifice: rem divinam facere (dis)
    
• “dis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Louisiana Creole numbers ^(edit)

		100
←  1	[a], [b] ←  9	10	11  →	20  →
		1
Cardinal: dis, di, diz

Inherited from French dix (“ten”).

• IPA^(key): /dis/
• Rhymes: -is

dis

1. ten

• This word is used independently of nouns.
• When preceding nouns, di is used for consonant-initial words, and diz is used for vowel-initial words. Compare French etymon dix.

Mauritian Creole cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dis     Ordinal : diziem

From French dix.

dis

1. ten

dis

1. neuter genitive singular of dese

dis

1. alternative form of þis

dis

1. alternative form of dees (“die”)

dis

1. alternative form of dees: plural of dee (“die”)

From English this.

dis

1. this
   • 2018 October 23, “'I wan get pikin but I no wan nack'”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[5], archived from the original on 25 February 2025:

     E tok say, "I still dey feel pipo wella, like romantically, I still fit say dis girl fine, but e no go reach my brain to di point say I wan nack dis babe."

     He said, "I still have strong feelings for people, like romantically. I can still say that this girl is beautiful, but it won't get to my head to the point where I want to have sex with her."

• “dis” in Naija Guru, 2026.

dis

1. first-person singular preterite of dithe

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːs/

dīs

1. locative of dii

From German Low German dis.

dis m (definite singular disen)

1. haze

• disig

• “dis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Low German dis.

dis m (definite singular disen, uncountable)

1. haze

• disen
• disig

From Old Norse dís f, from Proto-Germanic *dīsiz (“(demi-)goddess; virgin”)

dis f (definite singular disa, indefinite plural diser, definite plural disene)

2. (Norse mythology) dis

From De (“you (formal singular)”) modelled after the adjective dus.

dis (singular and plural dis)

1. having formal distance (of interpersonal relationships)
2. (originally historically, formal) being on terms where one may address each other with the formal 2nd person singular pronoun De, as opposed to the more formal du.

• dus

• “dis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin decem.

• IPA^(key): /dis/

cardinal number

10	Previous:	nuef
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dis

1. ten

• French: dix
• Norman: dgix, dix (Guernsey), dyis (continental)
• Walloon: dijh

From the verb dire.

dis

1. inflection of dire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Inherited from Sanskrit दिश् (diś).

dis (Pali name disa)^[1]

1. to point out

Inherited from Sanskrit दृश् (dṛś).

dis (Pali name disa)^[2]

1. to see^[3]
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[6] (overall work in Pali), page 283; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     दिसस्स पस्सदिस्सदक्ख वा॥१४॥

     14. Disassa passadissadakkhā vā.

     From 'dis', optionally 'pass', 'diss' or 'dakkh'.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: dis

dis n (indeclinable)

1. (music) D sharp

• “dis”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[7] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): /d̥ʲiʃ/

dis

1. intolerant of cold, cold-sensitive, nesh
2. delicate, tender

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “dis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 140

From Low German dis (“haze”), of West Germanic origin (compare Dutch dijs (“mist, fog”), West Frisian diish), of uncertain origin; possibly from Middle Low German dûnster, from Old Saxon *thinstar, from Proto-West Germanic *þimstr (“dusky, dark”). If so, related to modern Dutch deemster (“twilight”).^[1]

dis n (uncountable)

1. mist, haze; a thin fog
2. indefinite genitive singular of di

• dimslöja

• disig
• soldis
• torrdis

• “dis”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “dis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “dis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• dis in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• sid

From English dish.

dis

1. dish; bowl

• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008), Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 16

dis

1. under

From Middle English dees.

• IPA^(key): /diːs/

dis m or f (plural disiau or disau)

1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)