English

Proper noun

Vis

1. A town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011)
2. An island in the Adriatic Sea.

English

Noun

vis ‎(plural vires)

1. Force; power.

Related terms

• vim

Etymology 2

Noun

vis

1. Abbreviation of viscount.

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪs/

Noun

vis ‎(plural visses)

1. Alternative spelling of viss

Anagrams

• ISV, IVs, SIV

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɨs/

Noun

vis ‎(plural visse, diminutive vissie)

1. fish

Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. place, land, country

Derived terms

• visele

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βis/

Verb

vis

1. (first-person singular indicative present) I go.

Related terms

• zer

Danish

Noun

vis c

1. manner, way

Adjective

vis

1. wise

Inflection

Adjective

vis

1. sure, certain

Inflection

Verb

vis

1. imperative of vise

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1934) visch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪs
• IPA^(key): /vɪs/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisk, visc, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pisḱ-. Compare German Fisch, West Frisian fisk, English fish, Danish fisk.

Noun

vis m ‎(plural vissen, diminutive visje n)

1. fish

Derived terms

• inktvis
• platvis
• walvis

Verb

vis

1. first-person singular present indicative of vissen
2. imperative of vissen

French

Etymology 1

From Old French viz, from Latin vītis ‎(“vine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vis/

Noun

vis f ‎(plural vis)

1. **** (metal fastener)

Derived terms

• tournevis

Etymology 2

see vivre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi/

Verb

vis

1. first-person singular present indicative of vivre
2. second-person singular present indicative of vivre
3. second-person singular present imperative of vivre

Etymology 3

See voir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi/

Verb

vis

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

Latin

Etymology 1

From volō ‎(“wish”).

Verb

vīs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of volō

Derived terms

• quantusvīs
• sī vīs

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wiH-s ‎(“force, vehemence”), from *weyH- ‎(“to rush”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἴς ‎(ís, “strength”). See also via, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος ‎(oîmos).

Noun

vīs f ‎(genitive vīs); third declension

1. force, power, strength
2. violence
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     Nōn vī, sed verbō.

     Not through violence, but the word.

   Ad vim atque ad arma confugere.

   To fly to violence and fighting.

3. (figuratively) assault, affront
4. (New Latin, physics) force

Usage notes

The plural forms of this noun are often treated as a separate plurale tantum noun.

Declension

Third declension, but with shortened stem in the singular. The genitive and dative singular forms are rarely used.

Derived terms

• vindex
• violēns/ violentus
• violō

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • straight on: rectā (viā)
    
  • to wish any one a prosperous journey: aliquem proficiscentem votis ominibusque prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
    
  • to be robust, vigorous: bonis esse viribus
    
  • as well as I can; to the best of my ability: pro viribus or pro mea parte
    
  • to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere
    
  • to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • to lay hands on oneself: manus, vim sibi afferre
    
  • to perform the last offices of affection: supremis officiis aliquem prosequi (vid sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • to have considerable influence on a question: magnam vim habere ad aliquid
    
  • to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunae favore or prospero flatu fortunae uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • to wish prosperity to an undertaking: aliquid optimis ominibus prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnibus viribusor nervis contendere, ut
    
  • to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
    
  • to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: pro viribus eniti et laborare, ut
    
  • there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence: res spectat ad vim (arma)
    
  • to express clearly, make a lifelike representation of a thing: exprimere aliquid verbis or oratione (vid. sect. VI. 3, note adumbrare...)
    
  • to possess presence of mind: praesenti animo uti (vid. sect. VI. 8, note uti...)
    
  • to behave with cruelty: crudelitate uti (vid. sect. VI. 8, note uti...)
    
  • to use insulting expressions to any one: contumeliosis vocibus prosequi aliquem (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
    
  • to use violence against some one: vim adhibere, facere alicui
    
  • to do violence to a person: vim inferre alicui
    
  • to kill with violence: vim et manus afferre alicui (Catil. 1. 8. 21)
    
  • to meet force by force: vim vi depellere
    
  • to meet force by force: vi vim illatam defendere
    
  • to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
    
  • to accuse a person of violence, poisoning: accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis
    
  • to procure a very large supply of corn: frumenti vim maximam comparare
    
  • by force of arms: vi et armis
    
  • to force a way, a passage: iter tentare per vim (cf. sect. II. 3)
    
  • to have recourse to force of arms: ad vim et arma descendere (vid. sect. V. 9, note Similarly...)
    
  • to fight hand-to-hand, at close quarters: collatis signis (viribus) pugnare
    
  • (ambiguous) the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt
    
  • (ambiguous) vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
    
  • (ambiguous) what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
    
  • (ambiguous) oratorical power: vis dicendi
    
  • (ambiguous) what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae est vis huius verbi?
    
  • (ambiguous) the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
• 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
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Latvian

Particle

vis (invariable)

1. Use to strengthen denying of the verb

   nav vis - not at all

   es neiešu vis - I shall not go

Adverb

vis

1. very, most (synonym of word pats)

Lojban

Rafsi

vis

1. rafsi of viska.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• viz

Etymology

From Old French vis.

Noun

vis m (plural vis)

1. face

Descendants

• French: vis

Norman

Verb

vis

1. first-person singular preterite of vaie

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víss

Adjective

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

1. wise

Derived terms

• visdom

Etymology 2

Verb

vis

1. imperative of vise

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīsus ‎(“act of looking; appearance”).

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) face
2. opinion

Synonyms

• (face): visage, face

Descendants

• French: visage, avis

Portuguese

Adjective

vis m pl

1. Masculine plural of adjective vil.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin visum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [vis]

Noun

vis n ‎(plural visuri or vise)

1. dream; vision

Declension

Related terms

• visa

See also

• вис (Moldavian spelling)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vysь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋîːs/

Noun

vȋs m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ви̑с)

1. (expressively, in the literature) height

   dići u vis‎ ― to raise,elevate

   skok u vis‎ ― high jump

2. summit (of a hill)

Declension

References

• “vis” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

vis

1. wise

Declension

Usage notes

• In de tre vise männen ‎(“the three wise men”), an antiquated weak masculine plural form vise is used.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą.

Noun

vis n

1. a way; manner in which something is done or happens

Declension

Synonyms

• sätt