# lice
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English lys, from Old English lȳs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laɪs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪs

### Noun

lice
* plural of louse

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* lice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, ciel

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lis/
* Homophones: lices, lis/lys, lisse, lissent, lisses

### Etymology 1

From Frankish *listia.

#### Noun

lice f (plural lices)
* (fortifications) curtain wall
* (historical) pomerium
* (by extension) list, field (for combat); playing field; arena
    Il est entré en lice. ― He came into contention.

##### Derived terms

* en lice

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: lliça
* → Italian: lizza
* → Portuguese: liça
* → Spanish: liza

### Etymology 2

Probably from Vulgar Latin *licia, from Latin lycisca, feminine of lyciscus (“wolf dog”).

#### Noun

lice f (plural lices)
* (archaic) brach, bitch hound (specifically, dog used for breeding hunting dogs)

### Further reading

* “lice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### References

* ↑ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “5084. *līstia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 366

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈl̠ʲɪcɪ/

### Noun

lice f sg
* Alternative form of leice: genitive singular of leac

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lice”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Latin
### Verb

licē
* second-person singular present active imperative of liceō

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlit͡sɛ/, [ˈlʲit͡sə]

### Verb

lice
* third-person plural present of licyś

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈliː.t͡ʃe/

### Noun

līċe
* dative singular of līċ

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* (Lesser Poland):
** (Kielce) IPA: /ˈli.t͡sɛ/
** (Przemyśl) IPA: [ˈlʲi.t͡sɛ]

### Etymology 1

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#### Noun

lice n
* (Przemyśl) single string braided from threads

### Etymology 2

See lejce.

#### Noun

lice nvir pl
* (Kielce) Alternative form of lejce

### Further reading

* Aleksander Saloni (1908) “lice”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 336
* Jan Łoś (1886) “lice”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 185

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʎiʰkʰʲə/

### Noun

lice f
* genitive singular of leac

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lice.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lǐːt͡se/
* Hyphenation: li‧ce

### Noun

líce n (Cyrillic spelling ли́це)
* face
    ukradeno lice ― stolen face (translated name of the film "Face Off")
* (grammar) person
    prvo lice jedine ― first person singular
    prvo lice množine ― first person plural
* (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) person, individual

#### See also

* obraz

## Slovene
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *līcè. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian líce.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lìːt͡sɛ/, /líːt͡sɛ/
* Rhymes: -ìːt͡sɛ, -íːt͡sɛ
* Hyphenation: li‧ce

### Noun

līce n
* (anatomy, usually in the plural) cheek
* (anatomy, archaic) face
    Synonym: obrȁz
* (literary) facade, frontage
    Synonyms: fasȃda, pročȇlje / pročẹ̑lje

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “lice”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “lice”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references