bilis

Borrowed from Latin bīlis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbi.lis]

bilis f (invariable)

1. bile

   Synonym: fel

• “bilis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Clipping of biljardi +‎ -is

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilis/, [ˈbilis̠]
• Rhymes: -ilis
• Hyphenation^(key): bi‧lis

bilis (slang)

1. (billiards) billiards, pool (game)

• biljardi

From Proto-Italic *bistli-. de Vaan notes that the word is only found in Latin and Brythonic (Welsh bustl) and does not rule out a substrate borrowing for both; however, it could instead be a derivative of a preform *bid-tli-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split off, bite”), referring to the substance's bitterness.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.lis/, [ˈbiːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.lis/, [ˈbiːlis]

bīlis f (genitive bīlis); third declension

1. bile
2. (figuratively) anger, gall

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• ātra bīlis

• Catalan: bilis
• English: bile, bili-
• French: bile
  • Romanian: bilă
• Galician: bile
• Irish: bili-
• Italian: bile
• Portuguese: bílis, bile
• Spanish: bilis

• “bilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to vent one's anger, spite on some one: iram, bilem evomere in aliquem
    
  • to excite a person's wrath: stomachum, bilem alicui movere
    

IPA^(key): /bi.ˈlis/

bilis

1. dog

Borrowed from Latin bīlis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilis/ [ˈbi.lis]

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• Rhymes: -ilis
• Syllabification: bi‧lis

bilis f (plural bilis)

1. bile

   Synonym: hiel

• “bilis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Compare Kapampangan bilis. See also Spanish veloz.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /biˈlis/ [bɪˈlis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: bi‧lis

bilís (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

1. speed

   Synonyms: tulin, katulinan, kabilisan

2. promptness; quickness

   Synonyms: liksi, kaliksihan

3. velocity

   Synonym: belosidad

4. (grammar) ultimate syllabic stress (without a glottal ending)

• (syllabic stresses): lumay, bilis, dagsa

bilís (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

1. faster! hurry up; quick!

   Synonym: dali

• “bilis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• libis, sibil, silbi