lid

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Translingual

Symbol

lid

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nyindrou terms

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (slang) A cap or hat.
3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. Clipping of eyelid.
8. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
9. (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
10. (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

1. (transitive) To put a lid on (something).

   Antonym: unlid

Derived terms

• unlid

Translations

Anagrams

• -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lət]

Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

1. member (of a group or club)
2. member, limb

Derived terms

• lidmaat

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪt]

Noun

lid m inan

1. people

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

1. trust

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Further reading

• “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/
• Hyphenation: lid
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)

1. member (of a group)

   Synonym: lidmaat

2. member, limb (extremity of a body)

   Synonym: ledemaat

3. member, penis

   Synonym: penis

4. (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
5. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lid
• → Indonesian: lid
• Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

1. (rare) lid, cover

Derived terms

• ooglid

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪt]
• Hyphenation: lid

Noun

lid (plural lid-lid)

1. (colloquial) member (of a group)

   Synonym: anggota

Further reading

• “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde

Etymology

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/

Noun

lid (plural liddis)

1. A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
2. The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
3. The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
4. (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.

Descendants

• English: lid
• Scots: lid

References

• “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lir, lider

Verb

lid

1. present tense of lide
2. imperative of lide

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/
• (Southern Møre dialect) IPA^(key): /liːd/

Noun

lid f (plural lidi)

1. (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. Alternative form of li.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lidą (“followers, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/

Noun

lid n

1. ship, vessel

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

Derived terms

• lida
• lidmann

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

Noun

lid ?

1. member

Descendants

• Middle High German: lit
  • Alemannic German: Lid
  • German: Lied

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: lid

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

1. lawsuit

   Synonym: litigio

2. fight

   Synonym: lucha

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “lid”, 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

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

lid c

1. A slope of a hill.

Declension

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lida

Further reading

• lid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Volapük

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (nominative plural lids)

1. song

Declension

Welsh

Noun

lid

1. Soft mutation of llid.

Mutation

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)

1. limb, member (of the body)
2. penis
3. part (of a whole)

Usage notes

• The plural lea occurs only in sense 1 and usually in a collective sense, i.e. referring to all of a person’s limbs.

Noun

lid n (plural leden)

1. member (of a group)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)

1. lid, cover
2. Short for eachlid (“eyelid”).