tis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tis"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Masadiit Itneg with s and ti interchanged.

Symbol

tis

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Masadiit Itneg.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Masadiit Itneg terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪz

Contraction

tis

1. Alternative form of 'tis.

Noun

tis

1. plural of ti

Anagrams

• SIT, Sit, its, its', IST, STI, is't, ist, sit, -ist, 'its, it's, Ist, TSI, ITS, S.T.I.

Albanian

Noun

tis m (plural tísi, definite tísa, definite plural tísat)

1. thin film, layer, or veil

   Synonyms: cipë, shtresë

2. (medicine) thin membrane over the eye, cataract

   Synonyms: perde, katarakt

3. thin layer covering something (e.g. steam, smoke, mist)
4. (botany) yew (Taxus baccata)

   Synonym: bërshen

Declension

Declension of tis

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tis	tisi	tisa	tisat
accusative		tisin
dative	tisi	tisit	tisave	tisave
ablative			tisash

Further reading

• “tis”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Slavic *tisъ

Old Czech tis

Czech tis

Inherited from Old Czech tis, from Proto-Slavic *tisъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcɪs]
• Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

tis m inan

1. yew (tree or wood)

Declension

Declension of tis (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	tis	tisy
genitive	tisu	tisů
dative	tisu	tisům
accusative	tis	tisy
vocative	tise	tisy
locative	tisu	tisech
instrumental	tisem	tisy

Derived terms

• tis červený
• tis čínský
• tis himalájský
• tis japonský
• tis kanadský
• tis sumaterský
• tis tichomořský
• tisovité

Further reading

• “tis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

A back-formation of tisse.

Noun

tis n (singular definite tisset, not used in plural form) (uncountable)

1. (informal) urine, piss

   Synonym: pis (“vulgar”)

Declension

Declension of tis

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	tis	tisset
genitive	tis'	tissets

References

• “tis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtis]
• The scansion seems to be long in Miles Gloriosus 1033.

Pronoun

tīs

1. (Old Latin, Plautine) genitive singular of tū
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1033 (Anapaestic septenarius):

     Lamentari
     ait illam, miseram cruciari et lacrimantem se adflictare,
     quĭă tīs ĕgĕāt, quĭă tē cărĕāt. ŏb ĕam rem hūc ad tē missast.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1.145–146 (Trochaic septenarius):

     [Alcesimarchus] Em omnia / pătĭōr iūre īnfēlīx. [Selenium] Vŏlŭp est nĕquĕ tis mĭsĕrērī dĕcēt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 343:

     non eo haec dico, quin quae tu vis ego velim et faciam lubens:
     sed ego hoc verbum quom illi quoidam dico, praemonstro tibi,
     ŭt ĭtă te ălĭōrum mĭsĕrēscāt, nē tī̆s ălĭōs mĭsĕrĕāt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 6 (tis here is an editorial emendation which has been disputed):

     Si ex te tacente fieri possem certior,
     ere, quae miseriae te tam misere macerent,
     duorum labori ego hominum parsissem lubens,
     me͜ī tē rogandi‿et tis respondendī mĭhī;
     nunc quoniam id fieri non potest, necessitas
     me subigit ut te rogitem.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Portuguese

Noun

tis

1. plural of til

Romanian

Noun

tis m (plural tiși)

1. alternative form of tisă

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tis	tisul	tiși	tișii
genitive-dative	tis	tisului	tiși	tișilor
vocative	tisule		tișilor

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English teeth.

Noun

tis

1. (anatomy) tooth

Yola

Alternative forms

• 'tis

Etymology

Contraction of it is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪz/

Contraction

tis

1. it is

   Synonym: it's

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:

     Lidge w'ouse an a milagh, tis gaay an louthee:

     Lie with us on the clover, 'tis fair and sheltered:

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84