лице

From Proto-Slavic *lice.

• IPA^(key): /liˈt͡sɛ/

лице • (licé) n

1. face

   изсмивам се в лицето на някого - to laugh in someone's face

   казвам нещо в лицето на някого - to say something to someone's face

   лице с/в лице - face to face, nose to nose

   обръщам се с лице към - to face, to make front to

   познавам по лице - to know by sight

   пред лицето на - in the face of

   с лице към вятъра - facing the wind, with the wind in one's face

   срещам се лице с/в лице - meet in the face

   имам лице да - to have the face to, to have the cheek to

   на лице съм - to be at hand, to be available/present, to be apparent

   фактът е на лице - there is no denying the fact

2. face, countenance

   безизразно лице - poker face

   изписано е на лицето му - you can read it in his face/countenance

3. person, individual

   в лицето на - in the person of

   длъжностно лице - an official, an office-holder, a functionary

   като частно лице - in one's private capacity, as a private person

   официални лица - official personalities/representatives/guests

   поставено лице - a straw man, a dummy

   техническо лице - an expert, a qualified technician

   упълномощено лице - a person in authority

   (law) физическо лице - a natural person, a physical person

   (law) юридическо лице - juridical person, body corporate, corporate body, corporation, legal entity

4. (literature) character, a being involved in the action of a story

   действащи лица (в пиеса) - dramatis personae, characters

5. (grammar) person
6. (mathematics, geometry) surface
7. the face of a building, facade, front
8. (architecture) elevation
9. the right side of a fabric
10. obverse (of a coin or a medal)
11. (shoemaking) upper, vamp

• (countenance): изражение
• (individual): човек
• (character): герой

From Proto-Slavic *lice.

лице • (lice) n

1. face
2. person (grammar)
3. person, individual

From Proto-Slavic *līcè ("cheek, face").

лице • (lice) n

1. (anatomy) face, cheek

   лицемь къ лицоу, лицемь въ лице, въ лице, на лици — face to face

   беꙁ лица — shameless(?), disfigured(?)

   оутвръдити лице своѥ — harden one’s resolve

2. the frontal aspect of something
3. surface
4. appearance, form, countenance

   на лици — outwardly, to appearances

   на лице/лица ꙁьрѣти, на лице/лица сѫдити — to be biased, partial, prejudiced

5. person

   самъ своимь лицемь — personally

6. essence, nature
7. hypostasis

• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “лице”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “лице”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [lʲɪˈt͡sɛ]

лице́ • (licé) n inan or n anim

1. prepositional singular of лицо́ (licó)

From Proto-Slavic *lice.

• IPA^(key): /lǐːtse/
• Hyphenation: ли‧це

ли́це n (Latin spelling líce)

1. face
2. (grammar) person
3. (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) person, individual

From Proto-Slavic *lice.

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лице́ • (lycé) n (genitive лиця́, nominative plural ли́ця)

1. face

• лице in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka