lien
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lien (plural liens)
- (obsolete) A tendon.
- (law) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 7:
- Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 7:
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lien.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
right to take and hold debtor’s property
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Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
lien
- (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 26:10:
- And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.”
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Numbers 5:19:
- And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Latin lien (“spleen”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lien (plural lienes)
- (uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen.
- 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:
- Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.
- 1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312:
- The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, [...]
- 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CornishEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French lien, from Old French lien, liem, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lien m (plural liens)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “lien” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- liēnis m
EtymologyEdit
Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʿaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥- (spərəzan-), Sanskrit प्लीहन् (plīhán). Doublet of splen.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | liēn | liēnēs |
| Genitive | liēnis | liēnum |
| Dative | liēnī | liēnibus |
| Accusative | liēnem | liēnēs |
| Ablative | liēne | liēnibus |
| Vocative | liēn | liēnēs |
ReferencesEdit
- lien in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lien in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
LatvianEdit
VerbEdit
lien
- 2nd person singular present indicative form of līst
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of līst
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of līst
- 2nd person singular imperative form of līst
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of līst
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of līst
LivonianEdit
Middle DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Dutch *līan, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].
VerbEdit
liën
- (transitive) to admit
- (transitive) to acknowledge, to be convinced
- (transitive) to declare
- (intransitive) to assent
InflectionEdit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Dutch līan, from Proto-Germanic *līhwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.
VerbEdit
liën
- (eastern) to lend
InflectionEdit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- “liën (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “liën (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
- “liën (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Middle FrenchEdit
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- lïen (diareses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
lien m (oblique plural liens, nominative singular liens, nominative plural lien)
- tie; strap
- late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 408 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, lines 901-2:
- Brenguain, ore alez pur le chen,
amenez k'od tut le lïen- Brangain, go get the dog,
bring it with its leash
- Brangain, go get the dog,