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English

Etymology 1

tie +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?'?(r), IPA^(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: t?'?r, IPA^(key): /?ta?.?/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tire, tyre

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. One who ties (knots, etc).
2. Something that ties.
3. (archaic) A child's apron.

Etymology 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English t?r (“glory, honour, fame”), German Zier (“adornment, ornament, decoration”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in layers.
2. (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
3. (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

References

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie

Afrikaans

Etymology

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.

Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)

1. tiger
2. leopard

   Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +? er

Alternative forms

• 10'er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti???r/, [?t?i??]

Noun

tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)

1. ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
2. ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
3. number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
4. (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)

Inflection

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti??r/, [?t?i??]
• Homophone: tiger

Verb

tier

1. present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ir

Verb

tier

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

Anagrams

• riet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)

1. a ten kroner coin, worth about £1 in Britain.
2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

1. present of tie

References

• “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

Noun

tier m (plural tiers)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
• (Sursilvan) bestia
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?mina (“a thin piece of metal, wood, marble; a plate, leaf, layer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læm.?n.?/
• Rhymes: -æm?n?

Noun

lamina (plural laminae or laminas)

1. a thin layer, plate, or scale of material

   Synonyms: sheet, layer

   1. (anatomy) either of two broad, flat plates of bone of a vertebra that is fused with and extends from the pedicle to the median line of the neural arch to form the base of the spinous process and that along with the pedicle forms the posterior part of the vertebral foramen
   2. (botany) the flat expanded part of a foliage leaf or leaflet

      Synonym: blade

   3. (geology) a fine layer that occurs in sedimentary rocks
   4. (zootomy) one of the narrow thin parallel plates of soft vascular sensitive tissue that cover the flesh within the wall of a hoof

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “lamina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “lamina”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Almain, Animal, Malian, Manila, Milana, al-Amin, almain, aminal, animal, maalin, manila

French

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular past historic of laminer

Anagrams

• animal

Indonesian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lamina, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *stelh?- (“broad, to broaden”). Possibly through Portuguese lâmina or Spanish lámina (“sheet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la?mina]
• Hyphenation: la?mi?na

Noun

lamina (plural lamina-lamina, first-person possessive laminaku, second-person possessive laminamu, third-person possessive laminanya)

1. (archaic) coat of mail
2. lamina: a very thin layer of material.

Further reading

• “lamina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin l?mina (“thin sheet of material”). Doublet of lama, a borrowing from French.

Noun

lamina f (plural lamine)

1. thin sheet or layer; lamina
2. (botany) lamina, blade
3. (anatomy) lamina

Derived terms

• lamina d'oro (“gold leaf”)

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular present indicative of laminare
2. second-person singular imperative of laminare

Anagrams

• Manila

Latin

Alternative forms

• lammina, lamna

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *stelh?- (“broad, to broaden”). See l?tus, latus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la?.mi.na/, [???ä?m?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.mi.na/, [?l??min?]

Noun

l?mina f (genitive l?minae); first declension

1. (literally, Classical Latin) a thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc.; a plate, leaf, layer
2. (transferred sense)
   1. a red-hot plate used as torture devices for slaves
   2. money, coin, gold, precious metal
   3. a saw (cutting device)
   4. (anatomy) the flap of the ear
   5. the tender shell of an unripe nut

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• l?mella
• lamnula
• subl?mina

Descendants

References

• lamina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lamina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lamina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lamina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Julius Pokorny (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Bern, Munich: Francke Verlag

Malay

Noun

lamina (Jawi spelling ???????, plural lamina-lamina, informal 1st possessive laminaku, impolite 2nd possessive laminamu, 3rd possessive laminanya)

1. coat of mail

Further reading

• “lamina” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of laminar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of laminar

Romanian

Etymology

From French laminer.

Verb

a lamina (third-person singular present lamineaz?, past participle laminat) 1st conj.

1. to laminate

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?mina/, [la?mi.na]

Verb

lamina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of laminar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of laminar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of laminar.