sis

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: cis

sis (plural sises or sisses)

1. (informal) Clipping of sister.

   big sis

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig:

     My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.

• (sister): sissy

sis (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) she
   • 2023 February 2, ㅊ (@jaja_girly), Twitter‎^[1]:

     sis is living my delusions, happy for her

   • 2023 February 1, KB (@MzKRB), Twitter‎^[2]:

     The internalized colorism that has inflicted Will is just… Referring to gorgeous Veronica as “Black bald dark-skin woman.” How she didn’t snatch him from his Mama’s highchair I do not know.. Sis dodged all the bullets.. #loveisblindbrazil

   • 2022 September 29, Kahlen Barry (@KahlenBarry), Twitter‎^[3]:

     “Sue Me” sis snapped

   • 2023 January 3, sésé/gee☆♱ (@d0llydeathw1sh), Twitter‎^[4]:

     sis really said fuck the police go off

   • 2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter‎^[5]:

     Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹

• sis boom bah (etymologically unrelated)

• ISS, SSI

Unknown. Cognate with Turkish sis.

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sislər)

1. fog

   Synonyms: duman, çən

• “sis” in Obastan.com.

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Thai สี่ (sìi), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Lao ສີ່ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Zhuang seiq.

• IPA^(key): /si˧˥/

sis

1. four

• siq (in loanwords from Chinese)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsis]
• Rhymes: -is

Inherited from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis m or f

1. (cardinal number) six

sis m (plural sisos)

1. six

sis

1. plural of si

• “sis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪs]
• Rhymes: -ɪs

sis

1. Contraction of jsi + si.

When using a reflexive verb in the second-person singular past form and in conditional, the auxiliary verb být (“to be”) is replaced with just -s appended to the reflexive pronoun se, si. The full form “jsi se”, “jsi si” is proscribed as hypercorrect.

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

sis

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

Inherited from Latin sessus.

• IPA^(key): /si/

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sis (feminine sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. past participle of seoir

sis

1. (rare) first/second-person singular past historic of seoir
   • 1785, Charles Baudelaire, Annales poétique depuis l’origine de la poésie françoise, Tome 33‎^[6]:

     Au carabet, lorſque je ſis à table,
     Je ne bois qu’à ma ſoif, & que le cœur m’en dit:
     Mais quand Margot me tient au lit,
     Tout-ci, tout-ca,
     Par-ci, par-là !.

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sis (feminine sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. (law or literary) located
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 4, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Par les larges hublots du lab, sis au sixième étage, la vue dominait une mer orangée de tuiles en terre cuite qui rappelaient que cette ville avait été, avant d’être « civinisée », une plutôt avenante cité provençale.

     The view from the lab's big windows, located on the sixth floor, overlooked a sea of orange terracotta tiles, which were a reminder that before it was "civinized", this had been a rather charming Provençal town.

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

sis m pl

1. plural of si

sis

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌹𐍃

From French six.

• IPA^(key): /sis/

sis

1. six

From English six, French six, German sechs, Spanish seis, Italian sei, Russian шесть (šestʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis

1. six (6)

From si +‎ -s.

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈsis/ [ˈsi̞s]
  • IPA^(key): (parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) /ˈhih/ [ˈhi̞h]
• Rhymes: -is, (parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) -ih
• Syllabification: sis

sis

1. Alternative form of si

• (oblique arguments) sin, si, sis, ed, en, en da

• Janet L. Allen (2014) Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎^[7] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 128

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siːs/, [s̠iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sis/, [sis]

A contraction of sī vīs, from sī (“if”) + vīs (“you want”), the second person of volō (“to want”). Literally meaning "if you want".

sīs (not comparable)

1. if you want, if you wish, if you're willing, if you prefer

   Synonym: sōdēs

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

sīs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

• “sis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /sis/
• Rhymes: -is

Inherited from French six (“six”).

sis

1. six

• This word is used independently of nouns.
• When preceding nouns, si is used for consonant-initial words, and siz is used for vowel-initial words. Compare French etymon six.

Inherited from French sucer (“to suck”).

sis

1. short form of sisé (“to suck”)

From French six.

sis

1. six

• IPA^(key): /sɪ̀s/

From Proto-Athabaskan *səx. Cognate with Western Apache sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

sis (possessed form -ziiz)

1. belt, sash, girdle

   Shiziiz áshłééh.

   I am putting my belt on.

Cognate with Tsuut'ina sis, Beaver shís, hís, Sekani hís, Chipewyan sheθ, Carrier shuθ.

sis

1. (obsolete) hill, mountain

• tsis

• Sis Naateel (“Wide Belt Mesa NM, Sisnathyel Mesa”)
• Sisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)
• Tsisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)

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sis

1. locative of sii

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

• IPA^(key): /sis/

sis

1. six

• Middle French: six
  • French: six
    • Haitian Creole: sis
    • Louisiana Creole: sis
    • Mauritian Creole: sis
  • Norman: six
• Walloon: shijh
• → Middle English: sice, sis
  • English: sice, sise, size
    • → Japanese: サイス (saisu)

sīs

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

• seis (Surmiran)
• ses (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

sis

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) six

From English cheese.

sis

1. cheese

From Ottoman Turkish سیس (sis, “freckle, spot; mist, fog”), origin unknown.

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sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

• sisli

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Athabaskan *səx. Cognate with Navajo sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀s]

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

• shiziz = "my belt"
• biziz = "her/his/their belt"