pli
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]pli
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]pli c (singular definite plien, not used in plural form)
- 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.
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French plus. Doublet of plu and plus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adverb
[edit]pli
- more
- 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio[1]:
- Du homoj povas pli multe fari ol unu.
- Two people can do much more than one.
Antonyms
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pli n
- young seagull
- cry of a seagull
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (young seagull): mási
Interjection
[edit]pli
- cry of a seagull
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the verb plier.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pli m (plural plis)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Swedish: pli
Further reading
[edit]- “pli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Mauritian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pli
Related terms
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French ploi, from the verb ploiier, from the Latin verb plicō (“I fold”).
Noun
[edit]pli m
- 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.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pli, supplement)
Romansch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pli
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French pli. Attested since 1825.
Noun
[edit]pli c
- (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
Declension
[edit]Declension of pli
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | pli | plis |
| definite | plin | plins | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
References
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