lapis

Shortened form of lapis lazuli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpɪs/

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lapis (uncountable)

1. Ellipsis of lapis lazuli.
   • 1735, [John Barrow], “ENGRAVING”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:

     Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...]

   • 1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53:

     French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.

   • 2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291:

     That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.

   • 2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99:

     The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]

• In translations of Indian mythological texts, a plural form lapises can be found.
• The term lapis is sometimes considered an informal/slang term, especially after its popularization by Minecraft.

• kek lapis

• Alsip, spial, Lipas, Palis, pails, ALIPs, pials, lapsi, lipas

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapis/ [ˈl̪a.pis]
• Hyphenation: la‧pis

lápis (Basahan spelling ᜎᜉᜒᜐ᜔)

1. pencil

   Synonyms: pensil, monggol (dated)

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

• Hyphenation: la‧pis
• IPA^(key): /ˈlapis/ [ˈl̪a.pɪs̪]

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lapis

1. doublespotted queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
2. needlescaled queenfish (Scomberoides tol)

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”), from Latin lapis (“stone”).

lapis

1. a pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

• lápis (reintegrationist)

Learned borrowing from Latin lapis (“stone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapis/ [ˈla.pis̺]
• Rhymes: -apis
• Hyphenation: la‧pis

lapis m (invariable)

1. pencil

   E a letra con que escribía nun papel cun lapis atado nunha silla.

   And the handwriting he used to write on a piece of paper with a pencil tied to a chair.

• “lapis”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Malay lapis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapis (“stone slab, thin layer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.pɪs/
• Rhymes: -pɪs, -ɪs, -s
• Hyphenation: la‧pis

lapis (plural lapis-lapis)

1. layer, lining
2. row
3. stratum

lapis

1. in layers

• “lapis” 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.

Borrowed from Latin lapis. Doublet of lapide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis/
• Rhymes: -apis
• Hyphenation: là‧pis

lapis m (invariable)

1. pencil

   Synonym: matita

2. sanguine (red chalk)

   Synonym: sanguigna

• salpi, spali

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapis/ [ˈläː.pis]
• Hyphenation: la‧pis

lapis

1. pencil

lapis

1. squirrel

From Proto-Italic *lapets. May be connected with Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “bare rock, crag”), either from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”) (compare secō, saxum; rumpō, rupēs) or, more likely, a Mediterranean substrate language.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.pɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.pis]

lapis m (genitive lapidis); third declension

1. stone

   Synonyms: saxum, silex, petra

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.346–353:

     Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
     Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
     Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
     Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
     Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
     Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
     Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,
     Hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit canis aestifer arva.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       For the rest, whate'er
       The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
       Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
       Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
       Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
       Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
       And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
       Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
       Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
       This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
       When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.

   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Genesis 28:22:

     et lapis iste quem erexi in titulum vocabitur Domus Dei

     And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house

2. milestone
3. boundary stone
4. gravestone, tombstone
5. lapis manalis (“stone of manes”), which covers the gate of Hades or underworld
6. stone platform at a slave auction
7. statue
8. (poetic) jewel, precious stone

Third-declension noun.

• “lapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lapis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lapis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lapis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 678

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

• IPA^(key): [la.pes]
• Rhymes: -pes, -es
• Hyphenation: la‧pis

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapis (“stone slab, thin layer”).

lapis (Jawi spelling لاڤيس)

1. layer

   Synonym: petala

2. row
3. stratum

• Indonesian: lapis

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lapis (Jawi spelling لاڤيس)

1. flayed (of meat, etc.)
2. a type of kuih made out of rice flour or wheat flour and coconut milk steamed layer by layer

   Synonyms: kuih lapis, lapis legit

• “lapis” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.pɪs/

lapis m (plural lapsijiet)

1. alternative form of lapes

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

lapís

1. coconut shell

Learned borrowing from Latin lapis (īnfernālis); compare Russian ля́пис (ljápis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis/

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• Rhymes: -apis
• Syllabification: la‧pis

lapis m inan

1. (informal) silver nitrate (silver salt of nitric acid, AgNO3)

   Synonyms: azotan srebra, kamień piekielny

2. (archaic) light grey or light lilac color

• lapis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lapis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French lapis or Latin lapis.

lapis n (uncountable)

1. lapis lazuli

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”), from Latin lapis. Doublet of lapida.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlapis/ [ˈlaː.pɪs]
• Rhymes: -apis
• Syllabification: la‧pis

lapis (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜉᜒᜐ᜔)

1. pencil

   Synonym: mongol

2. graphite; black lead

   Synonym: grapito

3. doublespotted queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
4. stone slab; stile of tiles

• mongol

• “lapis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• plais, pasil, Pasil, lipas

From Portuguese lápis.

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil

Borrowed from Spanish lápiz (“pencil”).

lapis

1. pencil