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Clipping of English and Bislama Bislama.

bis

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bislama.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bislama terms

From French bis, from Latin bis

bis

1. The second iteration. Used in names of international standards.

• IPA^(key): /baɪz/

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bis

1. plural of bi

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

bis (not comparable)

1. (music, law) Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
   • 2014 January 10, Sergey Sayapin, The Crime of Aggression in International Criminal Law: Historical Development, Comparative Analysis and Present State, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 300:

     Article 15 bis of the Rome Statute ("Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (State referral, proprio motu)") lays down, in ten paragraphs, special procedural rules for the initiation of an individual prosecution on charges under Article 8 bis of the Statute (for a comprehensive examination of that article's material provisions, see supra 5.1) on the basis of a State referral or proprio motu by the Prosecutor. An analysis of specific provisions of Article 15 bis is offered below.

• bis key

• bis-phossy jaw

• SBI, SIB, IBs, BSI, sib, IBS

From Latin bis (“twice; again!”).

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. encore (brief extra performance after the main performance is complete)

bis

1. used to request an encore

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbis]

From older bis (“dark grey”), of unknown origin, but compare French bis meaning "beige."

bis m (plural bisos)

1. either of two closely-related species of mackerel, the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias) or the Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus)

   Synonyms: bísol, cavalla, gallimó

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

bis

1. again

bis

1. encore

bis m (plural bisos)

1. encore

• bisar

• “bis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• biiza (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German wise, from Old High German wisa, further etymology unknown, perhaps related with Proto-Germanic *wasô, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”).^[1] Cognate with German Wiese.

bis f (plural bisan, diminutive bisle) (Luserna)

1. grass, lawn
2. meadow

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

bis c

1. genitive singular indefinite of bi

• IPA^(key): /bis/
• Hyphenation: bis
• Rhymes: -is

Borrowed from German Bis.

bis f (plural bissen, diminutive bisje n)

1. (music) B-sharp

Learned borrowing from Latin bis. Doublet of twee and duo.

bis

1. Used to request an encore.

• → Indonesian: bis

From Latin bis.

• IPA^(key): /bis/

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• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: bis

bis

1. encore!

From Hindi बीस (bīs).

bis

1. twenty

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis m pl or f pl

1. plural of bi

From Latin bysseus (“cotton-coloured”), from Latin byssus (“linen”); cf. Italian bigio.

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis (feminine bise, masculine plural bis, feminine plural bises)

1. beige (colour)
2. brown (of bread that contains bran)

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

• (adverb) IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. again (a second time); encore
2. (in street numbering or law) A; designating a second thing with the same number

   12 bis, rue des Carmelites ― 12A, rue des Carmelites

• → Romanian: bis
• → Translingual: bis
• → Vietnamese: bis

bis (invariable)

1. alternative, secondary

bis m (invariable)

1. encore

bis

1. used to request an encore

• bisser (“to ask for an encore; to do an encore”)
• itinéraire bis (“detour”)

From bise.

• IPA^(key): /bi/

bis m (invariable)

1. (Quebec) kiss

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

From Middle High German biz, bit, bitze, from bī (“by”) + ze (“to”). Equivalent to modern bei/be- and zu. Compare German Low German bit (“until”), Saterland Frisian bit (“until”). Compare also English up to.

• IPA^(key): /bɪs/

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• Homophone: Biss
• Rhymes: -ɪs

bis

1. (subordinating, temporal) until

   Wir warten hier, bis das Gewitter vorbei ist.

   We'll wait here until the thunderstorm is over.

2. (coordinating) to

   Ich arbeite 40 bis 50 Stunden in der Woche.

   I work 40 to 50 hours a week.

   Ihre Haare sind braun bis dunkelbraun.

   Her hair is brown to dark brown.

bis [with accusative]

1. (temporal) until, to, (US) through

   Meine Tochter ist bis zwei Uhr in der Schule.

   My daughter is at school until two o'clock.

   Ich war von Montag bis Freitag krank.

   I was sick from Monday to Friday.

2. (temporal) by

   Die Aufgabe muss bis Donnerstag fertig sein.

   The task must be complete by Thursday.

3. (local) to; all the way to

   Der Zug fährt bis Köln.

   The train goes to Cologne.

• The temporal preposition bis can be followed by temporal adverbs of all kind: bis nachmittags (“until afternoon”), bis jetzt (“until now”). Moreover it can be followed by times, dates, holidays, days of the week, months, or years. The words Woche (“week”), Monat (“month”), and Jahr (“year”), as well as the names of days and months may also be preceded by letzter, voriger, dieser, kommender, or nächster. Bis takes the accusative. For example: bis letzte Woche (“until last week”); bis nächsten Freitag (“by next Friday”).
• The local preposition bis can be followed by local adverbs of all kind (e.g. bis hier (“over here”)) and by place names (see above).
• In other cases, bis must be followed by another preposition, most commonly zu (“to”): bis zum Sommer (“until summer”); bis zum ersten Freitag im neuen Jahr (“by the first Friday of the new year”); bis zum Hauptbahnhof (“to the main station”). This means that bis is never directly followed by a definite or indefinite article. Sometimes other prepositions may also be used after bis: Er ging bis ans Ufer. (“He went close to the shore”).

• bis auf

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪs/
• Hyphenation: bis

From Dutch bus (“container, box”) Compare to Dutch brievenbus (“letterbox, mailbox, post box”).

bis

1. (rare) letterbox; mailbox; post box

   Synonym: kotak surat

bis

1. nonstandard form of bus (“bus”)

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

bis

1. (colloquial) twice

From Dutch bies (“piping”), from Middle Dutch biese, from Old Dutch *biesa, from Proto-West Germanic *beusu.

bis

1. pipe; piping
   1. a hollow conduit or something resembling a tube
   2. decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric

      Synonym: pelisir

2. vessel, tube, duct

   Synonym: pembuluh

From Dutch buis (“pipe”), from Middle Dutch buse.

bis

1. (construction) pipe, duct

• “bis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Unadapted borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: bìs

bis m (invariable)

1. encore
2. repetition
3. duo (two varieties as a unit)

   Un bis di baccalà

   Two varieties of salt cod

• bissare

• → Maltese: bis

bis (invariable)

1. additional

• bis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		20[a], [b], [c]
	←  1	II 2	2  →	3  →
Cardinal: duo     Ordinal: secundus, alter     Adverbial: bis     Proportional: duplus     Multiplier: duplex, alterplex, biplex     Distributive: bīnus     Collective: bīniō     Fractional: dīmidius, sēmis

From Old Latin duis (mentioned by Cicero), from Proto-Italic *dwis, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“in two, twice, doubly”), adverb derived from *dwóh₁ (“two”); compare Ancient Greek δίς (dís), Sanskrit द्विस् (dvís). Doublet of dis-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbis]

bis (not comparable)

1. twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.9:

     Me torret face mutua / Thurini Calais filius Ornyti, / pro quo bis patiar mori, / si parcent puero fata superstiti.

     I love my own fond lover, / Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus: / For him I'd die twice over, / Would Fate but spare the sweet survivor thus.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.217–219:

     “[...] et iam / bis medium amplexī, bis collō squāmea circum / terga datī [...].”

     “[...] and soon, twice [the serpents] had encircled [Laocoön’s] body, twice around [his] neck with [their] scaly backs [...].” – Aeneas

   falli bis

   to be deceived twice

   • (post-Classical)
     Familia mea bis in hebdomade ad ecclesiam it.

     My family goes to the church twice a week.

(Note: all terms are learned and some are unsorted.)

• “bis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
    
  • twice consul: bis consul
    
• “bis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

bis (Toklat-Bearpaw)

1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Customary	batr (boil)	batr (boil)	batr (boil)	batr (boil)

From Middle High German biz, bit, bitze, from bī (“by”) + ze (“to”). See German bis.

• IPA^(key): /bis/

bis

1. until, till (something becomes true)

   Mir waarde mam Iessen, bis datt eis Gäscht all ukomm sinn.

   We are waiting with the food until all our guests have arrived.

2. to (used to indicate time)

   Synonym: vir

3. as far as (until)
4. between ... and

   Zeideg Quidde moosse 7 bis 12 Zentimeter laang.

   Mature quinces measure between 7 and 12 centimetres long.

5. (up) to (a certain value, a certain number)

bis zu

1. up to (a maximal value)

bis

1. until (a certain time)

   D'Metzlerei ass bis fënnef Auer nomëttes op.

   The butcher's is open until five in the afternoon.

2. up to, to

   Hire Jong ka scho bis zéng zielen.

   Their son can already count up to ten.

Borrowed from Italian bis.

• IPA^(key): /biːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

bis

1. Used to request an encore

A version of bith with the third-person singular ending replaced with -es as in other verbs (in some dialects).

bis

1. alternative form of bith

Cognate with Western Apache bis (“river bank”).

• IPA^(key): /pɪ̀s/

bis

1. adobe, clay, clod, cake of dirt

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: bis

bis m inan

1. encore (brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete)

   podwójny bis ― double encore

   potrójny bis ― triple encore

   domagać się bisu ― to demanda encore

   wykonywać/wykonać bis ― to perform an encore

   zagrać bis ― to play an encore

   zakończyć się bisem ― to end with an encore

   prosić/poprosić o bis ― to ask for an encore

bis

1. encore!

bis (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial) repeat, extra

   Synonyms: bisowy, powtórzony, dodatkowy

   Unia Europejska bis ― repeat European Union

   PRL bis ― repeat Polish People's Republic

• bis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
• Hyphenation: bis

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).

bis (not comparable)

1. bis (shows that something is to be repeated)

bis m (invariable)

1. encore (brief extra performance)
2. (by extension, informal) a second serving of something

• bisar

bis!

1. encore! (used by an audience to request a second performance)

bis m or f

1. plural of bi

• “bis”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bis”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French bis.

bis n (plural bisuri)

1. bis, encore, repeat

From Latin bis (“two times”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbis/ [ˈbis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: bis

bis m (plural bises)

1. encore

• otra vez
• otras tres

• “bis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “bis”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
• bis | Diccionario de la lengua española (2001) | RAE - ASALE

bis

1. indefinite genitive singular of bi

Borrowed from French bis, from Latin bis (“twice”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓit̚˧˦ səː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓit̚˦˧˥ səː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɨt̚˦˥ səː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: bít xơ

bis

1. (in street numbering) a; designating a second thing with the same number.

• ter
• kép

• Đỗ Phi Hùng (13 February 2012), “Vẫn loay hoay trong "mê hồn trận" số nhà”, in Tuổi Trẻ‎^[2] (in Vietnamese), Ho Chi Minh City, retrieved 12 March 2022

Cognate with Navajo bis (“clay”), Chiricahua bis (“cliff”), Mescalero bis ("river bank"), Jicarilla bis, Lipan bis, Plains Apache bis.

bis

1. river bank, bluff, embankment

• tábąąyú
• túbąąyú

• bis nán'áá = "bluff"
• Biszáhé = "Adobe cut bank clan, Edge of cliff dwelling clan" (of White Mountain group origin)
• Biszáhą́ = "Adobe cut bank clan, Edge of cliff dwelling clan" (of White Mountain group origin)
• Bis ténódǫ́ǫ́z = "Calva, Arizona" (lit. 'Striped river bank goes into the water')

• IPA^(key): /ɓis/

bis (transitive)

1. to take, to carry

• Gómez Navarrete, Javier Abelardo (2009), Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español‎^[3] (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 5 February 2023, page 119: “BIS”