multi

Shortening of multituberculate.

multi (plural multis)

1. (informal, paleontology) A multituberculate.
   • 1996, Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, page 316:

     Our Mesozoic antecedents are typified by small size; even the largest of the multis are not larger than a groundhog.

< multifasciatus

multi (plural multies)

1. (informal) Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, popular as aquarium fish)

Short for "multi two diamonds".

multi (uncountable)

1. (bridge) A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.

• Mitul

multi

1. inflection of multar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From multe (“a lot”) +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulti/
• Hyphenation: mult‧i
• Rhymes: -ulti

multi (present multas, past multis, future multos, conditional multus, volitive multu)

1. (intransitive) to be many, be numerous

Ellipsis of multinacionális vállalat (“multinational company”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmulti]
• Hyphenation: mul‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

multi (plural multik)

1. (colloquial) multinational (a multinational company)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti/
• Rhymes: -ulti
• Hyphenation: mùl‧ti

multi

1. inflection of multare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.tiː/, [ˈmʊɫ̪t̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti/, [ˈmul̪t̪i]

multī

1. inflection of multus:
   1. genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. nominative/vocative masculine plural

• multi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the matter involves much labour and fatigue: res est multi laboris et sudoris
    
  • many learned men; many scholars: multi viri docti, or multi et ii docti (not multi docti)
    
  • to be a great eater: multi cibi esse, edacem esse
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈmul.tɪ/

multi

1. plural of multa

Shortening of multinacional

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulti/ [ˈmul̪.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -ulti
• Syllabification: mul‧ti

multi f (plural multis)

1. multinational