Fleiß
See also: Fleiss
German
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German flīz, vlīz, from Old High German flīz, from Proto-West Germanic *flītan (“to strive”), from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, *flītiz (“strife, zeal, effort, diligence”).
Cognate with German Low German Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Saterland Frisian Fliet, English flite.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editFleiß m (strong, genitive Fleißes, no plural)
- diligence, industriousness, assiduity, assiduousness, effort, hard work
- 1836, Heinrich Heine, “Die romantische Schule”, in Heinrich Heine: Werke und Briefe in zehn Bänden, volume 5, Aufbau-Verlag, published 1972, page 38:
- [...] jetzt übersetzte er, mit unerhörtem Fleiß, auch die übrigen heidnischen Dichter des Altertums, [...]
- now he translated, with unheard-of effort, also the remaining pagan poets of the antiquity,
Declension
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