lic

See also: LIC, Lic, líc, lić, lîç, Lic., lic., and -lic

Translingual

Symbol

lic

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hlai.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hlai terms

English

Alternative forms

• lic.

Noun

lic (plural lics)

1. Abbreviation of license or licence.

Anagrams

• CLI, LCI, icl, CIL, ICL

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɪc/

Noun

lic f

1. (archaic, dialectal) alternative form of leic: dative singular of leac

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: lic

Verb

lic

1. second-person singular imperative of licyś

Old English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līką

Proto-West Germanic *līk

Old English lic

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ

Noun

līċ n

1. dead body, corpse
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCXVI ⁊ on þām ilcan ġēare Ċeolrēd Miercna cyning forþferde, ⁊ his līċ resteþ on Licetfelda.

     Year 716 In this year Ceolred, king of Mercia, died, and his body rests in Litchfield.

   Ōga cwæþ þæt hē wisse hwǣr þæt līċ bebyrġed wǣre.

   Oga said he knew where the body was buried.

2. (rare outside of poetry) body (living or dead)
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Hū, ne sæġde iċ ǣr þæt sē þe bær līċ ġefrēdan wolde, þæt hē hit sċolde mid barum handum ġefrēdan?

     Didn't I say before that if you want to feel someone's bare body, you have to feel it with your bare hands?

   • Wonders of the East

     Ðǣr beoð akende men, ðā beoð fiftȳne fōta lange ⁊ hī habbað hwīt līċ ⁊ tū neb on ānum hēafde, fēt ⁊ cnēowu swīðe rēad, ⁊ lange nosu ⁊ sweart feax.

     Men are born there who are fifteen feet tall. They have white bodies, two faces on each head, feet and knees that are very red, long noses, and black hair.

3. form

Usage notes

• *līką was the general word for "body" in Proto-Germanic (as still in Gothic), but by the time of written Old English, līċ has come to mean a dead body specifically, and the general word for "body" is līchama.
• The older sense “body (living or dead)” is preserved mainly in poetry and in certain compounds such as līcþēote (“pore,” literally “body pipe”). Some other compounds even preserve the yet older sense “form,” otherwise totally obsolete: eoforlīċ (“bore figure,” e.g. a boar crest on a helmet). See also the derived terms -līċ → Modern English -ly and ġelīċ → like, which both originally meant “formed” or “shaped” at some point in Proto-Germanic.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	līċ	līc
accusative	līċ	līc
genitive	līċes	līca
dative	līċe	līcum

Synonyms

• hrǣw

Derived terms

• ġelīċ (“like, similar”)
• -līċ (adjective-forming suffix: “-y, -ly, -like”)
• līchama (“body”)
• līcian (“to please,” impersonal: “to like”)
• līclēoþ (“dirge, elegy”)
• līctūn (“cemetery”)
• līcþeġnung (“funeral”)
• līcþēote (“pore”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lich, lik
  • English: lich, like
  • Scots: lyke, lich

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: lic

Noun

lic

1. genitive plural of lico

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lic f

1. dative of leac

Slovene

Noun

lic

1. genitive dual/plural of lice

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of licenciado (“bachelor”).

Noun

lic m or f (plural lics)

1. (informal) bachelor