lice

From Middle English lys, from Old English lȳs.

• IPA^(key): /laɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

lice

1. plural of louse

• lice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, ciel

• IPA^(key): /lis/
• Homophones: lices, lis/lys, lisse, lissent, lisses

From Frankish *listia.^[1]

lice f (plural lices)

1. (fortifications) curtain wall
2. (historical) pomerium
3. (by extension) list, field (for combat); playing field; arena

   Il est entré en lice. ― He came into contention.

• en lice

• → Catalan: lliça
• → Italian: lizza
• → Portuguese: liça
• → Spanish: liza

Probably from Vulgar Latin *licia, from Latin lycisca, feminine of lyciscus (“wolf dog”).

lice f (plural lices)

1. (archaic) brach, bitch hound (specifically, dog used for breeding hunting dogs)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲɪcɪ/

lice f sg

1. Alternative form of leice: genitive singular of leac

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lice”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

licē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of liceō

• IPA^(key): /ˈlit͡sɛ/, [ˈlʲit͡sə]

lice

1. third-person plural present of licyś

• IPA^(key): /ˈliː.t͡ʃe/

līċe

1. dative singular of līċ

• IPA^(key): /ʎiʰkʰʲə/

lice f

1. genitive singular of leac

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lice.

• IPA^(key): /lǐːt͡se/
• Hyphenation: li‧ce

líce n (Cyrillic spelling ли́це)

1. face

   ukradeno lice ― stolen face (translated name of the film "Face Off")

2. (grammar) person

   prvo lice jedine ― first person singular

   prvo lice množine ― first person plural

3. (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) person, individual

• obraz

From Proto-Slavic *lice.

• IPA^(key): /lìːt͡sɛ/, /líːt͡sɛ/
• Hyphenation: li‧ce

līce n

1. (anatomy) cheek
2. (anatomy, archaic) face

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, soft
nom. sing.	líce
gen. sing.	líca
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	líce	líci	líca
genitive (rodȋlnik)	líca	líc	líc
dative (dajȃlnik)	lícu	lícema	lícem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	líce	líci	líca
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lícu	lícih	lícih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lícem	lícema	líci

• obràz

• “lice”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024