vis

vis

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vishavan terms

• IPA^(key): /vɪs/

Borrowed from Latin vīs.

vis (plural vires)

1. Force; energy; might; power.

• vim
• virial

vis

1. Abbreviation of viscount.

From Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).

• IPA^(key): /vɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

vis (plural visses)

1. Alternative spelling of viss.

• viz

vis (not comparable)

1. Clipping of visual.

vis (third-person singular simple present viss, present participle vising, simple past and past participle vised)

1. Clipping of visualize.

vis (plural vises)

1. Clipping of visualization.
2. Clipping of visual.
3. Clipping of visibility.

• ISV, IVs, SIV

From Dutch vis, from Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /fəs/

• Audio:

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vis (plural visse, diminutive vissie)

1. fish (aquatic organism)
   • 1998, Trompies, “Kom Push”, in Shosholoza:

     Ons gaan die vis vang

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (collective) fish (multiple fish collectively)

• visser

From Proto-Albanian *uitśi-(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“house, settlement”). Cognate to Sanskrit विश् (víś, “settlement, community, tribe”), Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house”), Latin vicus (“village”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [vis]

vis m (plural vise, definite visi, definite plural viset)

1. place
2. land
3. country

• visele

• “vis”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3], 1980

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪs]
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: viz

vis

1. second-person singular imperative of viset

• vsi

From Latin vādō.

• IPA^(key): /βis/

vis

1. (first-person singular indicative present) of zer

From Old Norse vís (in ǫðru vís(i) "otherwise"), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsǭ (“manner”). Cognate with Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, Dutch wijze and German Weise. Another variant of the same word is Danish vise (“song”), Swedish visa, from Old Norse vísa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋiˀs]
• Rhymes: -iːˀs

vis c

1. manner, way

   Synonyms: måde, facon

   Altså må jeg finde æblerne på anden vis.

   In conclusion, I must find the apples some other way.

• -vis

“vis,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognates include Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, and German weise.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋiˀs]
• Rhymes: -iːˀs

vis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive vise)

1. wise

   Coordinate terms: klog, indsigtsfuld

“vis,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz, cognate with Norwegian viss, Swedish viss, German gewiss.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋes]
• Rhymes: -es

vis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive visse)

1. sure, certain

   den visse død

   certain death

2. certain, a

   En vis Hr. Broholm vil tale med Dem.

   A mr. Broholm wishes to speak with you.

“vis,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋiˀs]
• Rhymes: -iːˀs

vis

1. imperative of vise

• IPA^(key): /vɪs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vis
• Rhymes: -ɪs

From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

vis m (plural vissen, diminutive visje n)

1. (countable) fish (aquatic organism)
2. (uncountable) fish (quantity of the above seen as catch, product, meat)

• visch (before 1934)

• Afrikaans: vis
• Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
• Jersey Dutch: väśe
• Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
• Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
• Petjo: fis
• →? Aukan: fisi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vis

1. inflection of vissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Inherited from Old French vis, from Latin vītis (“vine”).

• IPA^(key): /vis/

• Audio (Paris, France):

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• Homophones: vice, vices, visse, vissent, visses

vis f (invariable)

1. screw (metal fastener)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /vi/
• Homophones: vie, vies, vit, vît

vis

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

vis

1. first/second-person singular past historic of voir

• vis-à-vis

• “vis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvis]

From Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ῑ̓́ς (ī́s, “strength”, < *ϝῑ̓́ς (*wī́s)), Sanskrit वय॑स् (váyas, “enjoyment; vigor; youth; age”). See also via, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).

vīs f (genitive vīs); third declension

1. (in the singular) force

   Synonyms: rōbur, vehementia

   1. power; influence; strength; faculty; potency

      Synonym: ops

      vis dicendi ― oratorical power^[1]

      magnam vim habere ad aliquid ― to have considerable influence on a question^[1]

      ingenii vis ― vivid, lively imagination^[1]

      mentis vis incitatior ― enthusiasm^[1]

   2. violence; overwhelming force; coercion; assault; force of arms

      Synonyms: aggressiō, impressiō, assultus, invāsiō, concursus, impetus, appetītus, occursiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, incursiō, petītiō, ictus, procella

      • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 65–67:

        Ō et erat longē mea quidem sententia, / quī imperium crēdat gravius esse et stabilius / vī quod fit quam illud quod amīcitia adiungitur.

        Oh and it’s really going too far, in my opinion, when anyone believes a command which is made by force to be more weighty and durable than that which is joined with affection.

      • the Wikipedia page Martin Luther on Catholic church reform

        Nōn vī, sed verbō.

        Not through violence, but the word.

      iter tentare per vim ― to force a way, a passage^[1]

      mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur ― there is a storm at sea^[1]

      tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut... ― the frost set in so severely that...^[1]

      ad vim atque ad arma confugere ― appeal to violence and fighting

      vim inferre alicui ― to do violence to a person^[1]

      vim et manus afferre alicui ― to kill with violence^[1]

      accusare aliquem de vi ― to accuse a person of violence^[1]

      res spectat ad vim (arma) ― there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence^[1]

      vim vi depellere ― to meet force by force^[1]

      vi et armis ― by force of arms^[1]

      ad vim et arma descendere ― to have recourse to force of arms^[1]

   3. (figuratively):
      1. meaning; significance; nature (essence and value of a word)

         quae est vis huius verbi? ― what is the meaning, the original sense of this word?^[1]

         vis et notio verbi, vocabuli ― the fundamental meaning of a word^[1]

      2. assault; affront
      3. quantity; flood

         frumenti vim maximam comparare ― to procure a very large supply of corn^[1]

         vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere ― to burst into a flood of tears^[1]

   4. (New Latin, physics) energy; force
   5. (New Latin, Star Wars) force
      • Sit vīs tēcum.

        May the Force be with you.

2. (in the plural) strength; might; vigor; capability (physical)

   Synonyms: rōbur, ops

   omnibus vīribus ― with all his strength; with all her might; with all their force

   vires corporis ― bodily strength^[1]

   vires colligere ― to gain strength^[1]

   vires aliquem deficiunt ― to lose strength^[1]

   dum vires suppetunt ― as long as one's strength holds out^[1]

   vires consenescunt ― to become old and feeble^[1]

   bonis esse viribus ― to be robust, vigorous^[1]

   pro viribus ― as well as I can; to the best of my ability^[1]

• In Republican Latin, the genitive singular is unattested, and the dative singular is rare; forms of rōbur (rōboris, rōborī) are used instead. The genitive singular is attested in imperial Roman authors; it occurs once in Tacitus (considered dubious by many editors) and multiple times in the legal writing of jurists such as Ulpian. Varro (De Lingua Latina 8.7) may obliquely refer to it when saying that the nominative form is shared with an oblique form ("et recto et obliquo vocabulo vis"). Per Weiss 2009, the etymologically expected genitive singular would be *vīis, which could have been contracted to vīs, but Weiss thinks the genitive singular was more likely an analogical creation on the model turris (n.s.) : turris (g.s.) :: vīs (n.s.) : vīs (g.s.).^[2]
• The plural forms of this noun are often treated as a separate plurale tantum noun, with a distinct meaning of "strength". An analogical nominative/accusative plural vīs is occasionally found, beginning with Lucretius.^[2]

Third-declension noun (non-neuter pure i-stem or non-neuter i-stem; two different stems).

• → English: vis, vim

From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁si, second-person singular present of *wéyh₁ti. This particular form is suppletive, in contrast to the other forms of volō which derive from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, with the expected etymological inflection *wels becoming vel (“or; and/or”).

vīs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of volō

• The verb nōlō originally had the equivalent form nevīs, but it fell out of use in favour of nōn vīs by the Classical period.

• quantusvīs
• sī vīs
• quīvīs

• “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vis", 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)
• “vis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “vis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 683
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. IVb. p. 1011.
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• Vis medicatrix naturae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

vis (invariable)

1. Used to strengthen denying of the verb

   nav vis ― not at all

   es neiešu vis ― I shall not go

vis

1. very, most (synonym of word pats)

• viz

From Old French vis.

vis m (plural vis)

1. face

• French: vis

vis

1. first-person singular preterite of vaie

From Old Norse víss.

vis (neuter singular vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visere, indefinite superlative visest, definite superlative viseste)

1. wise

• visdom

vis

1. imperative of vise

• IPA^(key): /ʋiːs/

From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz. Akin to English wise.

vis (neuter vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visare, indefinite superlative visast, definite superlative visaste)

1. wise

   Han er ein vis mann.

   He is a wise man.

From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Akin to English wise.

vis f or m or n (definite singular visen or visa or viset, indefinite plural visar or viser or vis, definite plural visane or visene or visa)

1. a way, manner

   Synonym: måte

   Dette har vore gjort på ulike vis.

   This has been done in different ways.

   Her gjer med det på dette viset.

   We do it in this manner here.

• The by far most common gender in use is neuter.

vis

1. imperative of visa

• “vis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• siv, svi

Inherited from Latin vīsus m.

vis oblique singular, m (oblique plural vis, nominative singular vis, nominative plural vis)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonyms: visage m, face f

2. opinion

• ⇒ French: visage m, avis m

• “vis-à-vis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vis

1. inflection of vif (“alive”):
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Inherited from Latin vītis (“vine”).

vis oblique singular, f (oblique plural viz, nominative singular viz, nominative plural vis)

1. screw

From Latin vītis.

• IPA^(key): /vis/

vis f (plural vis)

1. vine

• IPA^(key): /ˈvis/

From Proto-Slavic *vьśь.

vis m

1. all

• vės

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Slavic *osь.

vis f

1. axis

This noun needs an inflection-table template (g=f).

• Lehr-Spławiński, Tadeusz (1994), Słownik etymołogiczny języka drzewian połabskich. Zeszyt 6. (in Polish), Warszawa: Energia, pages 991-992.

vis

1. masculine/feminine plural of vil

Inherited from Latin vīsum.

• IPA^(key): [vis]

• Audio:

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vis n (plural visuri or vise)

1. dream; vision

• visa
• vedea

• вис (vis) (Moldavian spelling)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vysь.

• IPA^(key): /ʋîːs/

vȋs m inan (Cyrillic spelling ви̑с)

1. (expressive, in the literature) height

   dići u vis ― to raise, elevate

   skok u vis ― high jump

2. summit (of a hill)

• “vis”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /viːs/

• Audio:

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From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos (“knowledgeable”).

vis (comparative visare, superlative visast)

1. wise

   en vis man

   a wise man

   gammal och vis

   old and wise

"De tre vise männen (“the three wise men”)" uses an archaic weak masculine plural form vise.

• visdom

• klok

From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą. Cognate with Old English wise, archaic English wise.

vis n

1. (usually with på) a way (manner in which something is done or happens)

   Near-synonym: sätt

   Det fungerade inte, så vi får göra på något annat vis

   It didn't work, so we'll have to do it some other way

   Hon gör det på sitt eget lilla vis

   She does it in her own little way

   Det ska inte gå att göra mål på det viset

   It should be impossible to score like that [in that way]

   disco på finskt vis

   disco the Finnish way

   ... på så vis att ...

   ... in such wise that ... [archaic English – "... in such a way that ..."]

• på så vis
• på sätt och vis

• sätt
• -vis

• “vis”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “vis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “vis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• Siv

From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

vis m (plural [please provide])

1. fish