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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески wis, wys, from Стари Енглески wīs (“wise”), from Пра-Германски *wīsaz (“wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos, *weydtos, a participle form of *weyd-.

Cognate with Холандски wijs, Немачки weise, Норвешки and Шведски vis. Compare wit.

Adjective

wise (comparative wiser or more wise, superlative wisest or most wise)

  1. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
    Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.
    They were considered the wise old men of the administration.
  2. (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
    Don't get wise with me!
  3. (colloquial) Aware, informed (to something).
    Be careful: the boss is wise to your plan to call out sick.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from wise (adjective)
Collocations
  • wise person
  • wise decision
  • wise advice
  • wise counsel
  • wise saying
  • wise deed
Translations

Verb

wise (third-person singular simple present wises, present participle wising, simple past and past participle wised)

  1. To become wise.
  2. (ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
    Mo wised him up about his situation.
    After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.

Etymology 2

From Средњи Енглески wise, from Стари Енглески wīse, from Пра-Германски *wīsō. Cognate with Холандски wijze, Немачки Weise, Норвешки vis, Шведски visa, vis, Италијански guisa, Шпански guisa. Compare -wise.

Noun

wise (plural wises)

  2. (archaic) Way, manner, or method.
    • 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Fox‎[1]:
      In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.
    • Шаблон:RQ:KJV
    • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh, lines 2–5:
      […] the prize
      Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —
      Her Art for ever in fresh wise
      From hour to hour rejoicing me.
    • 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Life, lines 28–30:
      A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;
      The token of him being upon this wise
      Made for a sign of Lust.
    • 1926, J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog, page 308:
      And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Gandhi Experiments
    • 1964, Marshall McLuhan, chapter 6, in Understanding Media, 2nd edition:
      Then, at least, we shall be able to program consciousness in such wise that it cannot be numbed nor distracted by the Narcissus illusions of the entertainment world that beset mankind when he encounters himself extended in his own gimmickry.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Средњи Енглески wisen (“to advise, direct”), from Стари Енглески wisian (“to show the way, guide, direct”), from Пра-Западно Германски *wīsijan, from Пра-Германски *wīsaną, *wīsijaną (“to show the way, dispense knowledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).

Cognate with Холандски wijzen (“to indicate, point out”), Немачки weisen (“to show, indicate”), Дански and Norwegian Bokmål vise (“to show”), Norwegian Nynorsk visa (“to show”).

Verb

wise (third-person singular simple present wises, present participle wising, simple past and past participle wised)

  1. (dialectal) To instruct.
  2. (dialectal) To advise; induce.
  3. (dialectal) To show the way, guide.
  4. (dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
  5. (dialectal) To cause to turn.

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Contraction

wise

  1. Contraction of wi se.

Middle English

Noun

wise

  1. Alternative form of vice

Old English

Etymology 1

From Пра-Западно Германски *wīsā, from Пра-Германски *wīsō, *wīsaz. Cognate with Холандски wijze, Немачки Weise, Шведски vis, Италијански guisa, Шпански guisa.

Pronunciation

Noun

wīse f

  1. way (manner)
    Ne līcaþ mē sēo wīse þe hēo mē on lōcaþ.
    I don't like the way she looks at me.
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"

      ang

      —On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande., We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.
    • c. 1021, Wulfstan, Winchester Code of Cnut, article 5.1:
      Hǣðensċipe biþ þæt man dēofolġield weorðiġe, þæt is þæt man weorðiġe hǣðenu godu and sunnan oþþe mōnan, fȳr oþþe flōd, wæterwiellas oþþe stānas oþþe ǣniġes cynnes wudutreowu, oþþe wiċċecræft lufiġe oþþe morðweorc ġefremme on ǣniġe wīsan, oþþe on blōte oþþe frihte, oþþe swelcra gedwimera ǣniġ þing drēoge.
      Worshiping idols is a kind of paganism, whether one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon, or fire or flood, or wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if one loves witchcraft or commits murder in any way, either by sacrifice or by divination, or takes any part in similar delusions.
Usage notes
  • The phrase “in ___ way” is used with the accusative case: Þū myndgast mē on maniġe wīsan mīnes lārēowes (“You remind me in many ways of my teacher”).
Declension

Шаблон:ang-decl-noun-n-f

Descendants
  • Средњи Енглески: wise
See also

Etymology 2

From Пра-Германски *wasô. Cognate with Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”).

Pronunciation

Noun

wīse f

  1. a sprout, stalk
Declension

Шаблон:ang-decl-noun-n-f

Descendants
  • Средњи Енглески: wise
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