glis

See also: Glis

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁éys (weasel, mouse), related to Sanskrit गिरि (girí, mouse), Ancient Greek γαλέη (galéē, weasel).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

glīs m (genitive glīris); third declension

  1. dormouse
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative glīs glīrēs
genitive glīris glīrium
dative glīrī glīribus
accusative glīrem glīrēs
glīrīs
ablative glīre glīribus
vocative glīs glīrēs
Descendants

(Most via the late variant glīrus)

  • Italo-Romance
    • Corsican: ghjira
    • Italian: ghiro
  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: gllir
    • French: loir
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: llira, llirón
    • Galician: lirio, leirón
    • Leonese: tsirón, leirón, lleirón, llirón, llorigón
    • Mirandese: lheiron
    • Portuguese: leirão
    • Old Spanish: lir

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (to stick; to spread, to smear).[1] See also Latin glūten and glutus.

Pronunciation

Noun

glis f (genitive glitis); third declension

  1. (mineralogy) A tenacious kind of earth
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative glis glitēs
genitive glitis glitum
dative glitī glitibus
accusative glitem glitēs
ablative glite glitibus
vocative glis glitēs

References

  • glis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "glis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • glis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “glei-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 362-363

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb glise.[1][2]

Noun

glis n (definite singular gliset, indefinite plural glis, definite plural glisa or glisene)

  1. a grin
  2. a sneer

Usage notes

  • In 2020, masculine inflection (glisen) was made obsolete.[3]

References

  1. ^ “glis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  2. ^ “glis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  3. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (retrieved 12.21.20)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb glise.[1]

Noun

glis n (definite singular gliset, indefinite plural glis, definite plural glisa)

  1. a grin
  2. a sneer

Usage notes

  • In 2020, masculine forms (glisen, glisar, glisane) were made obsolete.[2]

Noun

glis m (definite singular glisen, indefinite plural glisar, definite plural glisane)

  1. a person who always has a grin

References

  1. ^ “glis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  2. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (retrieved 12.21.20)