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  1. noun A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other: a shopping list; a guest list; a list of things to do.
  2. noun A considerable number; a long series: recited a list of dates memorized.
  3. transitive verb To make a list of; itemize: listed his previous jobs.
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  1. French liste, from Old French, from Old Italian lista, of Germanic origin.
  2. Middle English, from Old English līste.
  3. Origin unknown.
  4. Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan; see kleu- in Indo-European roots.
  5. Middle English listen, to desire, please, from Old English lystan; see las- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also lyst, lest; from Middle English listen, lesten, lusten, earlier hlesten, from Anglo-Saxon hlystan (= Icelandic hlusta), list, listen, from hlyst, hearing (cf. gehlyst, hearing) (= Icelandic hlust, the ear; cf. Welsh clust, Irish cluas, the ear); with noun-formative -t, from Teutonic √ hlus, hear, which also appears (a) with formative -n in Anglo-Saxon hlosnian (= Middle High German lusenen, lüsenen = Swedish lyssna), listen (a form represented later by (b) Middle English lustnen, lestnen, listnen, English listen, in which the t is due to association with Middle English listen, English list); (c) with formative -sk in Middle Dutch luischen = Middle Low German lūschen = Middle High German lūschen, German lauschen = Danish luske (later Middle English lusken?), listen; (d) with formative -r in D. luisteren = Old High German lūstren, Middle High German lüstren, German dial. laustern = Danish lystre = Swedish lystra, harken; and (e) with formative -ja, absorbed, in Old High German hlosen, Middle High German losen, listen; the Teutonic √ hlus (= Aryan √ klus, as in Old Bulgarian slyshati, hear, slukhu, hearing, Lithuanian klausyti, hear, paklusti, harken, klausa, obedience, Sanskrit çrushti, hearing, obedience) being an extension of √ hlu (= Aryan √ klu, in L. cluere, hear, inclutus, heard of, famous, Greek κλύειν, hear, κλυτός, heard of, famous, etc.), whence Anglo-Saxon hlūd, English loud, etc.: see loud, client, etc.
  2. Middle English *list, lust, from Anglo-Saxon hlyst, hearing, gehlyst, hearing, = Icelandic hlust, the ear: see list, v.
  3. from Middle English listen, lysten, lesten, lusten (u pron. as y), desire, also impersonal, please, from Anglo-Saxon lystan, impersonal, please (= Old Saxon lustian = Dutch lusten = Middle Low German lusten = Old High German lustjan, lusten, Middle High German lüsten, German lüsten, ge-lüsten = Icelandic lysta = Danish lyste = Swedish lysta = Gothic (Moesogothic) lustōn, desire); from lust, desire, pleasure: see lust, n. Cf. lust, v., a doublet of list, now depending directly on the modern noun lust.
  4. from Middle English list, lest, lyst, variant (after the derived verb list) of lust, from Anglo-Saxon lust, pleasure, desire: see lust, n., and list, v.
  5. from Middle English liste, from Anglo-Saxon list, wisdom, cunning, = Old Saxon list = OFries. list, lest = Dutch list = Middle Low German Low German list = Old High German Middle High German list, wisdom, prudence, cunning, artifice, German list, cunning, artifice, = Icelandic Swedish Danish list, wisdom, skill, cunning, = Gothic (Moesogothic) lists, cunning, craft, will; orig. ‘cunning’ in the orig. sense of that word, ‘knowing’; with formative-t, from Teutonic √ lis in Anglo-Saxon leornian (orig. *lisnian), learn, lǣran, teach. See learn and lear, lore, and cf. last, from the same ult. root.
  6. from Middle English list, liste, lyste, from Anglo-Saxon līst, a border of cloth, = Dutch lijst = Middle Low German līste, a border, margin, = Old High German līsta, Middle High German līste, German leiste, a border, strip, = Icelandic lista = Danish liste = Swedish list (cf. French liste = Spanish Italian lista, from G. or Low German), a border, strip. Not found outside of Teutonic and Roman Some uses (e. g., def. 5) of list are apparently of French origin, the F. liste being ult. the same word, and the immediate source of English list.
  7. from Middle English listen, lysten; from list, n.
  8. = Dutch lijst = G. Danish liste = Swedish lista, from Old French liste, French liste = Spanish Portuguese Italian lista, orig. a border, band, strip, in present use a roll or list of names, catalogue, from Middle High German līste, German leiste (= Anglo-Saxon līst, English list), a border, band, edge, strip: see list.
  9. from list, n.
  10. Usually in plural lists; from Middle English liste, lyste, from Anglo-French liste, with unorig. t (perhaps by confusion with Old French liste, Middle English liste, English list, edge), properly lisse, Old French lisse, lice, French lice = Provencal lissa = Spanish liza = Portuguese liça = Italian liccia, lizza, from Middle Latin licia (plural liciæ), barrier (liciæ duelli, barriers of a tournament, the lists), apparently (with reference to the ropes used as barriers) orig. plural of Latin licium, thrum, thread, a small girdle. Cf. Middle High German G. litze, cord, lace, file, bobbin; French lisse, lace (see lisse).
  11. A variant of lisk, lesk: see lesk.
 

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