lic

• lic.

lic (plural lics)

1. Abbreviation of license/licence.

• CIL, CLI, LCI

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɪc/

lic f

1. (archaic, dialectal) Alternative form of leic: dative singular of leac

• IPA^(key): /lit͡s/, [lʲit͡s]

lic

1. second-person singular imperative of licyś

From Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką.

• IPA^(key): /liːt͡ʃ/

līċ n

1. dead body, corpse

   Ōga cwæþ þæt hē wisse hwǣr þæt līċ bebyrġed wǣre.

   Oga said he knew where the body was buried.

2. (rare outside of poetry) body (living or dead)
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Hū, ne sæġde iċ ǣr þæt sē þe bær līċ ġefrēdan wolde, þæt hē hit sċolde mid barum handum ġefrēdan?

     Didn't I say before that if you want to feel someone's bare body, you have to feel it with your bare hands?

3. form

• *līką was the general word for "body" in Proto-Germanic (as still in Gothic), but by the time of written Old English, līċ has come to mean a dead body specifically, and the general word for "body" is līchama.
• The older sense “body (living or dead)” is preserved mainly in poetry and in certain compounds such as līcþēote (“pore,” literally “body pipe”). Some other compounds even preserve the yet older sense “form,” otherwise totally obsolete: eoforlīċ (“bore figure,” e.g. a boar crest on a helmet). See also the derived terms -līċ → Modern English -ly and ġelīċ → like, which both originally meant “formed” or “shaped” at some point in Proto-Germanic.

• hrǣw

• ġelīċ (“like, similar”)
• -līċ (adjective-forming suffix: “-y, -ly, -like”)
• līchama (“body”)
• līcian (“to please,” impersonal: “to like”)
• līctūn (“cemetery”)
• līcþeġnung (“funeral”)
• līcþēote (“pore”)

• Middle English: lich, lik
  • English: lich
  • Scots: lyke, lich

• IPA^(key): /lit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: lic

lic

1. genitive plural of lico

lic f

1. dative of leac

lic

1. genitive dual/plural of lice

Clipping of licenciado (“bachelor”).

lic m or f (plural lics)

1. (informal) bachelor