list

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A set of items written or printed one after another.

   I made a list of things to buy at the store.

2. 2
   verb

   To write or name things one after another.

   Please list all the ingredients you need.

3. 3
   verb

   To lean to one side (especially a ship).

   The damaged ship began to list to the right.

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Simplified etymology

Several histories meet in list. Old English liste meant "edge" or "border," while a related Germanic form was borrowed into French as liste; French later supplied the late-16th-century sense "items written down" and influenced the English word's form. The boundary sense also produced the lists, the enclosed ground for combat, while listless preserves an unrelated obsolete list meaning "desire"; the 17th-century verb meaning "lean to one side" is of unknown origin.

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”) * Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”) * German Low German Liest (“edging, border”) * German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”) * Swedish lista…

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