lic

See also: LIC, Lic, líc, lić, lîç, Lic., lic., and -lic

English

Alternative forms

• lic.

Noun

lic (plural lics)

1. Abbreviation of license/licence.

Anagrams

• CIL, CLI, LCI

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɪc/

Noun

lic f

1. (archaic, dialectal) Alternative form of leic: dative singular of leac

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lit͡s/, [lʲit͡s]

Verb

lic

1. second-person singular imperative of licyś

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *līką.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːt͡ʃ/

Noun

līċ n

1. dead body, corpse

   Ōga cwæþ þæt hē wisse hwǣr þæt līċ bebyrġed wǣre.

   Oga said he knew where the body was buried.

2. body
3. form

Usage notes

• Līką was the general word for "body" in Proto-Germanic (as still in Gothic), but by the time of written Old English, līċ has come to mean a dead body specifically, and the general word for "body" is līchama.
• The older sense “body (living or dead)” is preserved in poetry and in certain compounds such as līcþēote (“pore,” literally “body pipe”). Some other compounds even preserve the yet older sense “form,” otherwise totally obsolete: eoforlīċ (“bore figure,” e.g. a boar crest on a helmet). See also the derived terms -līċ → Modern English -ly and ġelīċ → like, which both originally meant “formed” or “shaped” at some point in Proto-Germanic.

Declension

Declension of lic (strong-a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	līċ	līc
accusative	līċ	līc
genitive	līċes	līca
dative	līċe	līcum

Synonyms

• hrǣw

Derived terms

• ġelīċ (“like, similar”)
• -līċ (adjective-forming suffix: “-y, -ly, -like”)
• līchama (“body”)
• līcian (“to please,” impersonal: “to like”)
• līctūn (“cemetery”)
• līcþeġnung (“funeral”)
• līcþēote (“pore”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lich, lik
  • English: lich
  • Scots: lyke, lich

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: lic

Noun

lic

1. genitive plural of lico

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lic f

1. dative of leac

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Slovene

Noun

lic

1. genitive dual/plural of lice