HS
English
Noun
HS
Adverb
HS (not comparable)
- (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of half strength.
- (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of hora somni (“literally, hour of sleep; at bedtime”).. From Latin hora somni
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːˌæs/, [ˈho̞ːˌæs̠]
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːˌes/, [ˈho̞ːˌe̞s̠] (dated)
Declension
Declension of HS (type koira)
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French
Adjective
HS (invariable)
- Initialism of hors-service.
- Initialism of hors sujet. (off-topic, irrelevant)
Latin
Etymology
From a shortening of II S where II is 2 in Roman numerals and S stands for sēmis (“half”). This is because a sesterce was worth 2 and a half asses.
References
- “HS”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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