# anís
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* anis (Alghero)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anīsum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈnis]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈnis]

### Noun

anís m (plural anisos)
* anise, aniseed
* small confection flavoured with anise
* anisette (liqueur flavoured with anise)

#### Synonyms

* (plant): matafaluga
* (liqueur): aniset

#### Derived terms

* anisar
* aniset
* bolet d'anís

### Further reading

* “anís” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From an- (“from”) +‎ ís (“below, under”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸīssu, from Proto-Indo-European *pedsú, locative plural of *pṓds (“foot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈn͈ʲiːs/

### Adverb

anís
* from below
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102$^a$15
    Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aīs sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

#### Descendants

* Irish: aníos
* Manx: neese
* Scottish Gaelic: a-nis

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 131

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Phalura
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /anís/

### Pronoun

anís (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling انِس)
* this person, this thing
* it, him, her (prox acc)

#### Alternative forms

* hanís (Biori)

### References

* Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “anís”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French anis, from Latin anīsum, from Ancient Greek ἄνῑσον (ánīson).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnis/ [aˈnis]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -is
* Syllabification: a‧nís

### Noun

anís m (uncountable)
* anise
    Synonyms: matalahúva, matalahúga
* (beverage) anise liquor, pure or combined
    Synonym: anisado
* (euphemistic, Mexico) the anus (because of similar sound, compare ano)

#### Derived terms

* anís estrella
* anís estrellado
* anisar
* uva de anís

### Further reading

* “anís”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10