pli

Abbreviation of English Pali or Sanskrit पालि (pāli).

pli

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pali terms

pli c (singular definite plien, not used in plural form)

1. decency, good manners
   • 2015, Haidi Wigger Klaris, Dæmonherskerens arving #1: Skyggernes Bog, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:

     Hun tøvede, men til sidst overvandt nysgerrigheden dog alligevel plien.

     She hesitated, but ultimately, curiosity did defeat good manners after all.

From French plus. Doublet of plu and plus.

• IPA^(key): /pli/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: pli

pli

1. more
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio‎^[1]:

     Du homoj povas pli multe fari ol unu.

     Two people can do much more than one.

• malpli

• IPA^(key): [pliː]

pli n

1. young seagull
2. cry of a seagull

• (young seagull): mási

pli

1. cry of a seagull

   másin sigur pli

   the seagull says pli

From the verb plier.

• IPA^(key): /pli/

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pli m (plural plis)

1. fold
2. pleat
3. letter
4. (card games) trick

• prendre le pli

• → Swedish: pli

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

From French plus.

• IPA^(key): /pli/

pli

1. more

• plis

• plet
• ploy
• ply

Old French ploi, from the verb ploiier, from the Latin verb plicō (“I fold”).

pli m

1. fold
   • 1607, Loys d'Orleans, Les ouvertures des Parlements, page 332:

     Car Macrobe se moque de luy d'avoir fait adiourner un homme pour luy auoir defait un des plis de sa robe.

     Because Macrobe is making fun of him for having adjourned the case of a man because he removed one of the folds from his robes.

• → English: ply
• French: pli

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “pli”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

From Latin plus.

pli

1. more

Borrowed from French pli. Attested since 1825.

pli c

1. (instilled) strict, disciplined behavior

   få pli på hunden

   get the dog to behave

   få pli på någon

   get someone in line

   Hon har ingen pli på hunden

   She has no control over the dog

   Det har alltid varit pli på honom

   He's always been well-behaved

• pli in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pli in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pli in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)