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property
English
Alternative forms
- propretie
Etymology
From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
- Hyphenation: prop?erty
Noun
property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)
- Something that is owned.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- Synonyms: land, parcel
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
- (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- Synonym: prop
- (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
- (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
- Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
- I am too high-born to be propertied,
- To be a secondary at control,
- Or useful serving-man and instrument,
- To any sovereign state throughout the world.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
References
- property at OneLook Dictionary Search
- property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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lith
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /li?/
Etymology 1
From Middle English lith, lyth, from Old English liþ (“limb, member, joint, tip of finger, point”), from Proto-Germanic *liþuz (“limb”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots lith (“part of the body, joint”), West Frisian lid (“part of the body, member”), Dutch lid (“limb, member, section”), Middle High German lit (“limb, member”), Swedish led (“joint, link, channel”), Icelandic liður (“item”), Dutch lid (“part of the body; member”) and gelid (“joint, rank, file”), German Glied (“limb, member, link”).
Alternative forms
- lythe (15th century)
Noun
lith (plural liths)
- (Britain dialectal) A limb; any member of the body.
- (Britain dialectal) A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
- (Scotland) A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
Derived terms
- lithy
Etymology 2
From Middle English lith, lyth (“owndom”), from Old Norse lýðr (“people, lede”), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“men, people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?lewd?- (“man, people”). Cognate with Dutch lieden and lui, German Leute (“people”), Old English l?ode (“people”). More at lede.
Noun
lith (uncountable)
- Property.
Etymology 3
From *Middle English lith, from Old Norse hlið (“a gap, gate, space”), from Proto-Germanic *hlid? (“door, lid, eyelid”), from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to conceal, hide”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian lid, led (“an opening in a fence”), Scots lith (“a gap in a fence, gate opening”), Old English hlid (“lid, covering, door, gate, opening”). More at lid.
Noun
lith (plural liths)
- (Britain dialectal) A gate; a gap in a fence.
Etymology 4
By shortening.
Noun
lith (plural liths)
- (sciences, informal) coccolith
Anagrams
- Hilt, hilt
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
lith
- Alternative form of light
Etymology 2
Noun
lith
- Alternative form of lyth
Scots
Etymology
From Old English liþ, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [l??]
Noun
lith (plural liths)
- (anatomy) limb, member
- (anatomy) joint
- (of an orange, apple, onion, etc.) segment, division
- joint, slice, segment
- one of the rings at the base of a cow's horn
Verb
lith (third-person singular present liths, present participle lithin, past lithit, past participle lithit)
- to disjoint, sever the joints of, dislocate
- to wring a hen's neck
Yapese
Verb
lith
- to cook
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