pli

Translingual

Symbol

pli

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pali.

Danish

Noun

pli c (singular definite plien, not used in plural form)

1. decency, good manners
   • 2015, Haidi Wigger Klaris, Dæmonherskerens arving #1: Skyggernes Bog, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:

     Hun tøvede, men til sidst overvandt nysgerrigheden dog alligevel plien.

     She hesitated, but ultimately, curiosity did defeat good manners after all.

Esperanto

Etymology

From French plus. Doublet of plu and plus.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): [pli]
• Hyphenation: pli

Adverb

pli

1. more
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio‎:

     Du homoj povas pli multe fari ol unu.

     Two people can do much more than one.

Antonyms

• malpli

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pliː]

Noun

pli n

1. young seagull
2. cry of a seagull

Coordinate terms

• (young seagull): mási

Interjection

pli

1. cry of a seagull

   másin sigur pli

   the seagull says pli

French

Etymology

From the verb plier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pli/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pli m (plural plis)

1. fold
2. pleat
3. letter
4. (card games) trick

Derived terms

• prendre le pli

Descendants

• → Swedish: pli

Further reading

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French plus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pli/

Adverb

pli

1. more

Related terms

• plis

Middle French

Alternative forms

• plet
• ploy
• ply

Etymology

Old French ploi, from the verb ploiier, from the Latin verb plicō (“I fold”).

Noun

pli m

1. fold
   • 1607, Loys d'Orleans, Les ouvertures des Parlements, page 332:

     Car Macrobe se moque de luy d'avoir fait adiourner un homme pour luy auoir defait un des plis de sa robe.

     Because Macrobe is making fun of him for having adjourned the case of a man because he removed one of the folds from his robes.

Descendants

• → English: ply
• French: pli

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pli, supplement)

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin plus.

Adverb

pli

1. more

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pli. Attested since 1825.

Noun

pli c

1. (instilled) strict, disciplined behavior

   få pli på hunden

   get the dog to behave

   få pli på någon

   get someone in line

   Hon har ingen pli på hunden

   She has no control over the dog

   Det har alltid varit pli på honom

   He's always been well-behaved

Declension

Declension of pli
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pli	plin	—	—
Genitive	plis	plins	—	—

References

• pli in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pli in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pli in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)