cis

Abbreviation, presumably from either English cosine and sine and the number i or translingual cos, i, and sin.

cis

1. (mathematics) The function ${\displaystyle \mathrm {cis} (x)=\cos x+i\sin x}$ .

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: sis

From Latin cis (“on the same side”).

cis (not comparable)

1. (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
2. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
3. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.

   the cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands

• trans

A clipping of cisgender or of cissexual (from Latin cis).

cis (not comparable)

1. Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) or non-binary.

Compare cis- and its usage notes.

• trans

• -ics, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, SIC, Sci., sci, sci., sic

Borrowed from Ido cis, from Latin cis.

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• IPA^(key): /t͡sis/
• Hyphenation: cis

cis

1. (neologism) on this side of[1][2]
   • 2003, Aleksander Korĵe (tr.), “Palto”, in Rusa novelaro‎, Kaliningrad: Sezonoj, translation of original by Nikolaj Gogol:

     ...la mortinta oficisto komencis aperi eĉ cis la ponto Kalinkin, kaŭzante grandan timon al ĉiuj malkuraĝuloj.

     ...the dead office worker began to appear even on this side of the Kalinkin bridge, causing great fear to all cowards.

   • 2010 September, Donald Broadribb, “Pri tramoj kaj tasoj da teo”, in Mirmekobo, number 10, page 24:

     Trans la strato, laŭ mia vidkapablo, troviĝas nur amaso da arboj; kaj cis, malnovaj mallarĝaj domoj kun komunaj muroj kaj nur etaj gazonoj, kvazaŭ oni devis enŝovi ilin pro manko de spaco.

     Across the street, as far as I can see, is found only a mass of trees; and on this side, little old houses with common walls and only small lawns, as if one had to shove into them for lack of space.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cis.

   Ili loĝas cis tiuj montoj. ― They live on this side of those mountains.

   Synonyms: ĉi-flanke de, maltrans

   Antonym: trans

• apud (“beside”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsis/, [ˈs̠is̠]

cis

1. (music) C-sharp

Borrowed from Latin cis.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sis/

cis

1. on this side of (anything)

   Cis la rivero la tereno esas pasable sika.

   On this side of the river the terrain is pretty dry.

• trans (“on the other side of, beyond, across”)

• cisa (“hither (on this side)”)
• cise (“(on) this side”)
• cisalpa (“cisalpine”)
• cis-

• Esperanto: cis

cis (uncountable)

1. C sharp

From Middle Irish ces (“basket, hamper, pannier; bee-hive, skep; causeway of hurdles”), from Old Norse kesja, Latin cista.

• IPA^(key): [cɪʃ]

cis f (genitive singular cise, nominative plural ciseanna)

1. wicker container; basket, crate
2. plaited or crossed twigs as support for causeway

• ceas f

cis f (genitive singular cise)

1. restraint; (golf) handicap

• ciseadóireacht f (“wicker-work; basketry”)

cis (present analytic ciseann, future analytic cisfidh, verbal noun ciseadh, past participle ciste) (transitive, intransitive)

1. stand, place one's weight (ar (“on”))
2. restrain
3. (sports) handicap

• cisigh

• cisí m (“handicapper”)

• "cis" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “2 ces” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

cis (invariable)

1. cis

• ics
• sci

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here”). Cognate with ce-dō, hi-c, ec-ce, Ancient Greek ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos, “that”), Old Irish cē (“here”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰 (himma, “to this”). More at he, here.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kis/, [kɪs]

cis (+ accusative)

1. on or to this or the near side of; short of
2. before

• uls

• citer

• cis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Proto-Slavic *tisъ, from Proto-Indo-European *taḱs-

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕis/

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cis m inan

1. yew
2. (singular only) wood of the yew

Note: genitive singular form "cisa" can be used only for sense #1.

• (adjective) cisowy

• IPA^(key): /t͡sis/

cis ?

1. C sharp

• cis in Polish dictionaries at PWN