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English

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Etymology 1

From Old English līste, from Proto-Germanic *līstōn. Cognate with Dutch lijst, German Leiste, Icelandic lista/listi.

Noun

list (plural lists)

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton 2005, page 681:
      The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.
  3. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.
Translations
strip of fabric
  • Finnish: nauha (fi)
  • Polish: krajka f.
  • Portuguese: tira (pt) f.
material used for cloth selvage
barriers used for tournaments
  • Finnish: aita (fi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English liste (“roll of names, contestants in the lists”) (from lists (“place of combat at the boundary of fields”), from Middle English listes, plural of liste (“list”)) from Old English līste (“list, fringe, border”)

Noun

list (plural lists)

  1. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
  2. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from list (noun)
Translations
register or roll of paper
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπογραφή (apogaphē)
  • Arabic: قائِمة (ar) (qaa'ima(t)) f.
  • Bengali: তালিকা (bn) (talika)
  • Bulgarian: списък (bg) (spisâk) m.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 單子 (zh), 单子 (zh) (dānzi), 列出 (zh) (lièchū)
  • Czech: seznam (cs) m.
  • Dutch: lijst (nl) f.
  • Esperanto: listo (eo)
  • Estonian: loend (et)
  • Finnish: luettelo (fi), lista (fi)
  • French: liste (fr) f.
  • German: Liste (de) f.
  • Greek: κατάλογος (el) m.
  • Haitian Creole: lis
  • Hindi: लिस्ट (hi) (lisṭ) f.
  • Hungarian: lista (hu)
  • Indonesian: daftar (id)
  • Irish: liosta (ga)
  • Italian: lista (it) f.
  • Japanese: 一覧 (ja) (いちらん, ichiran), リスト (ja) (risuto)
  • Korean: 명부 (ko) (myeongbu)
  • Latin: please add this translation if you can
  • Limburgish: lies
  • Luxembourgish: Lëscht (lb)
  • Persian: فهرست (fa) (fehrest)
  • Polish: lista (pl) f., spis (pl) m.
  • Portuguese: lista (pt) f.
  • Romanian: listă (ro) f.
  • Russian: список (ru) (spísok) m.
  • Scots: leet
  • Scottish Gaelic: liosta (gd) f.
  • Slovak: zoznam (sk) m.
  • Slovene: seznam (sl) m.
  • Spanish: lista (es) f.
  • Swedish: lista (sv) c.
  • Telugu: జాబితా (te) (jaabitaa)
  • Urdu: لسٹ (ur) (lisṭ) f.
computing: codified representation of a list
LISP: data structure
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  • French: liste (fr) f.
  • Norwegian: liste (no) m. and f.

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.
Derived terms
Translations
to create or recite a list
  • Estonian: loetlema (et)
  • Finnish: listata (fi), luetella (fi)
  • French: lister (fr)
  • German: aufzählen (de)
  • Japanese: 列記する (rekki-suru), リストする (risuto suru)
  • Norwegian: liste (no)
  • Persian: فهرست کردن (fa) (fehrest kardan)
  • Polish: spisać / spisywać, wymienić / wymieniać, katalogować / skatalogować
  • Portuguese: listar (pt)
  • Russian: вносить в список (ru), составлять список (ru), регистрировать (ru)
  • Slovene: naštevati
  • Spanish: hacer una lista, leer una lista
  • Swahili: kuorodesha

Etymology 3

From listen

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)

  1. To listen
    • 1607 — William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra iv 3
      Peace, what noise? / List, list! / Hark! / Music i' the air.
Translations
to listen

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[1]

Noun

list (plural lists)

  1. (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
  2. (architecture) a tilt to a building.
Translations
nautical: tilting or careening manoeuvre
  • Polish: przechył m.

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre
Translations
to carry out such a manoeuvre
  • Polish: mieć przechył

Etymology 5

Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijanan, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). Akin to Old Norse lysta (whence cognate with Danish and Norwegian lyste), Old High German lusten (German gelüsten and obsolete lüsten).

Verb

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 413:
      The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
Derived terms
Translations
to be pleasing to
to wish, like, desire
  • Polish: życzyć sobie

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m.

  1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
  2. letter (written message)
  3. sheet (sheet of paper)
  4. newspaper
    Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)
  5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)
    rodný list -- birth certificate
    úmrtní list -- death certificate

Derived terms

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

list f. and m. (??? please provide the plural and diminutive!)

  1. a cunning plan

Anagrams

Faroese

Noun

list f.

  1. art

Declension

Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative list listin listir listirnar
Accusative list listina listir listirnar
Dative list listini listum listunum
Genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

list f. (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

Declension

declension of list
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listinni listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

Derived terms

  • listasafn
  • listasaga
  • listaverk
  • listasalur

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m.

  1. letter (a written message)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list (Dutch list), Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

Pronunciation

Noun

list f.

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

Declension

Declension of list (strong ō-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative list lista, liste
accusative liste lista, liste
genitive liste lista
dative liste listum

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

Noun

list m.

  1. letter (a written message)

Declension

declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listów
dative listowi listom
accusative list listy
instrumental listem listami
locative liście listach
vocative liście listy

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

lȋst m. (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст)

  1. leaf
  2. (computing) leaf
  3. sole (fish)
  4. letter (written message)
  5. sheet of paper
  6. calf (leg part)
  7. a special purpose certificate, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.

Declension

declension of list
singular plural
nominative lȋst lȉstovi
genitive lista lȉstōvā
dative listu listovima
accusative list listove
vocative listu listovi
locative listu listovima
instrumental listom listovima

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m.

  1. letter; a written message
  2. leaf; a part of a tree
  3. sheet; a piece of paper

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m. (plural listi)

  1. piece of paper
  2. leaf
  3. sole
  4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

Related terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

list c.

  1. smartness, trick, cunning
  2. a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
  3. (graphical user interface) a bar

Declension

Declension of list
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listen lister listerna
genitive lists listens listers listernas

Related terms

See also

References

 

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