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law
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /l??/
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /l?/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: lä, IPA(key): /l?/
- Homophone: la (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Homophone: lore (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lawe, la?e, from Old English lagu (“law”), from Old Norse l?g (“law”, literally “things laid down or fixed”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lag? (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie”). Cognate with Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”). Replaced Old English ? and ?esetnes. More at lay. Unrelated to French loi nor Spanish ley, since they both derive from *le?- (“to gather”).
Noun
law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)
- The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- (more generally) A rule, such as:
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
- Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can’t prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
law (third-person singular simple present laws, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)
- (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- 1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:
- Your husband's [...] so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
- 1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:
- (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern.
- (informal) To enforce the law.
- To subject to legal restrictions.
See also
- Appendix:Legal terms
- Appendix:Glossary of legal terms
- Category:Law
- lawe
Etymology 2
From Middle English lawe, from Old English hl?w (“burial mound”). Also spelled low.
Noun
law (plural laws)
- (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
- (Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A hill.
Etymology 3
Compare la.
Interjection
law
- (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
References
Etymology in ODS
Anagrams
- AWL, WAL, WLA, Wal., awl, lwa
Khumi Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khlaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la. Cognates include Tibetan ???? (zla ba) and Burmese ? (la.).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??/
Noun
law
- moon
- month
References
- R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 422
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?[1], Payap University, page 42
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /law/
Noun
law m (diminutive lawk, feminine equivalent lawowka)
- lion (Panthera leo)
Declension
Derived terms
- lawica
- lawik
- lawowy
Further reading
- law in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- law in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Middle English
Noun
law
- Alternative form of lawe
Scots
Noun
law (plural laws)
- law
- rounded hill (usually conical, frequently isolated or conspicuous)
Sranan Tongo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lau?/
Verb
law
- To be crazy
- To drive somebody crazy
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lau?/
Noun
law m
- lion (Panthera leo)
Declension
Derived terms
- lawica, lawjace/-a/-y, lawowe/-a/-y
Welsh
Noun
law
- Soft mutation of glaw (“rain”).
Mutation
Noun
law
- Soft mutation of llaw (“hand”).
Mutation
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basis
English
Etymology
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *g?émtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *g?em- (English come). Doublet of base.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: b??s?s, IPA(key): /?be?s?s/,
- Rhymes: -e?s?s
Noun
basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)
- A physical base or foundation.
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- A regular frequency.
- You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
- The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
- Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
Synonyms
- (starting point for discussion): base
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- absis, bassi, isbas
Catalan
Verb
basis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of basar
Danish
Noun
basis
- (linear algebra) basis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of base. Also a distant doublet of komst, via Proto-Indo-European *g???tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?.z?s/, /?ba?.z?s/
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis f (plural basissen or bases, diminutive basisje n)
- basis (principle, foundation, that which is elementary)
- base (lower portion, foundation)
- Obsolete form of base (“base, alkali”).
Derived terms
- basisarts
- basisbeurs
- basisdemocratie
- basisinkomen
- basisonderwijs
- basisschool
- machtsbasis
- thuisbasis
Related terms
- basaal
- base
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: basis
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?sis/, [?b?s?is?]
- Rhymes: -?sis
- Syllabification: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
Declension
Anagrams
- bassi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch basis, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of basa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bas?s]
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
- basis,
- (mathematics) in a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- base,
- (geometry) the lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (military) permanent structure for housing military; headquarter.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “basis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis, “foundation, base”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?bäs??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?b??s?is]
Noun
basis f (genitive basis); third declension
- A pedestal, foot, base; basis, foundation.
- (architecture) The lowest part of the shaft of a column.
- (grammar) The primitive word, root.
- (of cattle) A track, footprint.
Declension
Note that there are the alternative forms base?s for the genitive singular, base? for the ablative singular, basin for accusative singular, and baseis for the accusative plural.Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -?).
Synonyms
- (basis, foundation): r?d?x
- (pedestal, base): crep?d?
- (track, footprint): vest?gium
Derived terms
- basella
- basicula
- basil?ris
Related terms
- antibasis
Descendants
- English: base, basis
- French: base
- German: Basis f
- Italian: base
- Russian: ????? f (báza), ?????? m (bázis)
- Spanish: base
- Swedish: bas
References
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- basis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basiser, definite plural basisene)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
- verdensbasis
References
- “basis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basisar, definite plural basisane)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
References
- “basis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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