different between sis vs sissy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: cis

Noun

sis (plural sises or sisses)

1. (informal) Clipping of sister.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.

Synonyms

• (sister): sissy

Translations

Anagrams

• ISS, SSI

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *si?? (“four”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC si?^H, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-l?j (“four”). Cognate with Thai ??? (sìi), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (s?), Lü ??? (?ii¹), Tai Dam ???, Shan ??? (sìi), Tai Nüa ??? (s?), Ahom ???????? (sii), Zhuang seiq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si??/

Numeral

sis

1. four

Synonyms

• siq (in loanwords from Chinese)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sis/
• Rhymes: -is

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan seis, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis m or f

1. six

Noun

sis m (plural sisos)

1. six

Etymology 2

Noun

sis

1. plural of si

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Contraction

sis

1. Contraction of jsi + si.

Usage notes

When using a reflexive verb in the second-person singular past form and in conditional, the auxiliary verb být (“to be”) is replaced with just -s appended to the reflexive pronoun se, si. The full form “jsi se”, “jsi si” is proscribed as hypercorrect.

Related terms

• ses

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

sis

1. first-person singular present indicative of sissen
2. imperative of sissen

French

Etymology

From Latin sessus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si/

Verb

sis m (feminine singular sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. past participle of seoir

Adjective

sis (feminine singular sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

1. (law, literary) located

Further reading

• “sis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Noun

sis m pl

1. plural of si

Gothic

Romanization

sis

1. Romanization of ????????????

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Ido

Etymology

From English six, French six, German sechs, Spanish seis, Italian sei, Russian ????? (šest?), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis

1. six (6)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si?s/, [s?i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sis/, [sis]

Etymology 1

A contraction of s? v?s, from s? (“if”) + v?s (“you want”), the second person of vol? (“to want”). Literally meaning "if you want".

Adverb

s?s (not comparable)

1. if you want, if you wish, if you're willing, if you prefer

   Synonym: s?d?s

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sum (“I am”).

Verb

s?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

References

• sis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French six (“six”).

Numeral

sis

1. six

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French six.

Numeral

sis

1. six

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Athabaskan *s?x. Cognate with Western Apache sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziiz)

1. belt, sash, girdle

Inflection

Etymology 2

Cognate with Sarcee sis, Beaver shís, hís, Sekani hís, Chipewyan she?, Carrier shu?.

Noun

sis

1. (obsolete) hill, mountain

Alternative forms

• tsis

Derived terms

• Sis Naateel (“Wide Belt Mesa NM, Sisnathyel Mesa”)
• Sisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)
• Tsisnaajiní (“Blanca Peak”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sis

1. locative of sii

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

Numeral

sis

1. six

Descendants

• Middle French: six
  • French: six
    • Haitian Creole: sis
    • Louisiana Creole French: sis
    • Mauritian Creole: sis
  • Norman: six
• Walloon: shijh
• ? Middle English: sice, sis
  • English: sice, sise, size
    • ? Japanese: ??? (saisu)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) seis
• (Puter, Vallader) ses

Etymology

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Numeral

sis

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) six

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English cheese.

Noun

sis

1. cheese

Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

sis (definite accusative sisi, plural sisler)

1. (meteorology) fog

Declension

Derived terms

• sisli

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *s?x. Cognate with Navajo sis, Chiricahua sis, Jicarilla sis, Plains Apache sis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??s]

Noun

sis (possessed form -ziz)

1. belt

Derived terms

• shiziz = "my belt"
• biziz = "her/his/their belt"

Zazaki

Noun

sis

1. knitting needle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?si/
• Rhymes: -?si
• Homophone: cissy

Etymology 1

From sis +? -y.

Noun

sissy (plural sissies)

1. (derogatory, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
2. (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
   • 1963, Robert Smith, Pro Football: The History of the Game and the Great Players (page 144)

     This was all part of football and if any man was such a sissy he could not stand it, then he had better seek the sidelines.

3. (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
   • 2018, Paul Zante, Sissy Dreams: Motel Sissy (page 4)

     I realised I still held my normal male clothes and dropped them to the floor under the desk, out of the way. […] Would it hurt? Yes, I knew it would from watching videos of sissies being spanked by their dominant mistresses.

4. (colloquial) Sister.
   • 2008, Rita T. Kohn, William Lynwood Montell, Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians

     Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket. I explained to him why we were staying with his sissy. He wouldn't leave; he stayed, too. He kissed her, touched her hand, told her he would miss her.

Synonyms

• (effeminate man or boy): cot-quean (obsolete), janegirl (“effeminate boy”) (rare); see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
• (timid or cowardly person): milquetoast, nancy, pussy, quiche-eater; see also Thesaurus:milksop
• (sister): sis

Antonyms

• non-sissy
• unsissy

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)

1. (derogatory) Effeminate.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 26]:

     Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.

   • 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, ?ISBN, page 173:

     […] she’d decided the wrapping paper was too feminine. It had a viney pattern that wasn’t anything sissier than you’d see in the old Arabian Nights illustrations. But Richard might think they were flowers.

2. (derogatory) Cowardly.

Translations

Etymology 2

Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.

Noun

sissy (uncountable)

1. (childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.

Translations

Verb

sissy (third-person singular simple present sissies, present participle sissying, simple past and past participle sissied)

1. (childish, colloquial) To urinate.

Translations