lien

See also: Lien, líen, liền, and liên

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːn/, /liːən/
  • Homophone: lean (IPA(key): /liːn/)

Noun

lien (plural liens)

  1. (obsolete) A tendon.
  2. (law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
    • 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.
Quotations
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lien.
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɪən/

Verb

lien

  1. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain
    1611, Bible (King James Version), 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, Bible (King James Version), 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.

Anagrams

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈliːɛn]

Noun

lien m (plural liennow)

  1. literature

French

Etymology

From Middle French lien, from Old French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ljɛ̃/
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Noun

lien m (plural liens)

  1. link

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sploiǵh₂ḗn. Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʿaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥-‎ (spərəzan-), and Sanskrit प्लिहन् (plihan).

Pronunciation

Noun

liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension

  1. spleen

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative liēn liēnēs
genitive liēnis liēnum
dative liēnī liēnibus
accusative liēnem liēnēs
ablative liēne liēnibus
vocative liēn liēnēs

References

  • 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

Latvian

Verb

lien

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of līst
  2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of līst
  3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of līst
  4. 2nd person singular imperative form of līst
  5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of līst
  6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of līst

Livonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish lainata.

Verb

lien

  1. (Salaca) give a loan

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Verb

liën

  1. (transitive) to admit
  2. (transitive) to acknowledge, to be convinced
  3. (transitive) to declare
  4. (intransitive) to assent
Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *līan, from Proto-Germanic *līhwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.

Verb

liën

  1. (eastern) to lend
Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • “liën (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “liën (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
  • “liën (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French lien.

Noun

lien m (plural liens)

  1. tie; strap
  2. (by extension) link (association)

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

  • lïen (diareses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Latin ligāmen.

Noun

lien m (oblique plural liens, nominative singular liens, nominative plural lien)

  1. 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

Descendants

Swedish

Noun

lien

  1. definite singular of lie
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