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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ns (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

lens (plural lenses or (obsolete) lens or (rare) lentes)

1. An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
2. A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
3. (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
4. (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
5. (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
6. (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
7. (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
8. (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

lens

1. (obsolete) plural of lens

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lens (third-person singular simple present lenses, present participle lensing, simple past and past participle lensed)

1. (transitive, cinematography) To film, shoot.
2. (geology) To become thinner towards the edges.

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lens, from Latin l?ns (“lentil”).

Noun

lens (plural lense)

1. lens

Danish

Noun

lens n

1. genitive singular indefinite of len
2. genitive plural indefinite of len

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ns/
• Hyphenation: lens
• Rhymes: -?ns

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?ns (“lentil”).

Noun

lens f (plural lenzen, diminutive lensje n)

1. (optics) optical lens
2. crystalline lens in the eye

Derived terms

• contactlens
• lensafsluiter m
• lensdop
• ooglens
• telelens f

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lens
• Indonesian: lensa
• ? Japanese: ???

Etymology 2

Probably related to lans (“lance”).

Noun

lens m (plural lenzen, diminutive lensje n)

1. (historical) A type of barbless harpoon used for killing whales.

Etymology 3

Noun

lens f (plural lenzen, diminutive lensje n)

1. Alternative form of luns

Etymology 4

Adjective

lens (comparative lenzer, superlative meest lens or lenst)

1. empty
2. weak, flaccid

Inflection

Derived terms

Anagrams

• snel

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source.

Compare Old High German linsa, Lithuanian l?šis, Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?šta), and Albanian lend (Proto-Albanian *lenta), sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. May also be related to Ancient Greek ??????? (láthuros).

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation of lentil was widespread in the region since the Neolithic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lens/, [????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lens/, [l?ns]

Noun

l?ns f (genitive lentis); third declension

1. lentil
2. (Medieval Latin) lens

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -?).

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Unknown, perhaps a deformed form of what is found as Proto-Slavic *g?ìda (“nit”), Proto-Germanic *hnits (“nit”), Ancient Greek ????? (konís) (gen. ??????? (konídos)), Armenian ???? (anic, “nit”).

Noun

l?ns f (genitive lendis); third declension

1. nit (egg of a louse)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “l?ns, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 334
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001) , “lens”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, page 351.
• lens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Turkish

Noun

lens (definite accusative lensi, plural lensler)

1. contact lens

Declension

Synonyms

• kontakt/kontak lens

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?z/
• Homophone: lays

Noun

leis

1. plural of lei

Anagrams

• %iles, Elis, Iles, Isle, Lise, Sile, iles, isle, lies, sile, slie

Galician

Noun

leis f pl

1. plural of lei

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??s/
• Rhymes: -a??s

Adjective

leis (comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)

1. (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise

Further reading

• “leis” in Duden online

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish les (“buttock, hip, haunch; buttocks, posterior”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????/

Noun

leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. (cooking) leg, haunch

Declension

Synonyms

• ceathrú f
• sliasaid f

Derived terms

• leisíneach (“person with game leg; person with limping gait; tardy person”)
• leisíneacht (“limping gait; tardiness”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Preposition

leis (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. form of le (“with”) used before the definite article

Alternative forms

• ris

Pronoun

leis (emphatic leis-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of le

Adverb

leis

1. also
2. (with negative) too, either

Synonyms

• (also): chomh maith, fosta, freisin

Etymology 3

From Old Irish leis (“uncovered, bare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????/

Adverb

leis

1. uncovered, exposed

References

• (prepositional pronoun): Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• (prepositional pronoun): Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• lieis
• lieys

Pronoun

leis

1. emphatic oblique of ela: her
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, canso:

     Quar senes lieys non puesc viure [...].

     For without her I cannot live.

   • c. 1160, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, vers:

     Qu'ilh val tant e m'es tan coraus, / Que ja de lieis no·m venra maus.

     For she is worth so much and is such a part of my heart that no ill will ever come to me from her.

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

leis

1. plural of lei

Scots

Noun

leis

1. (South Scots) lies

Verb

leis

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of lei

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?]

Preposition

leis

1. Alternative form of le

Usage notes

• This is the form is used before the definite article.

Pronoun

leis

1. with him, by him
2. with it, by it

Derived terms

• leis-san

See also

• leatha