lege

See also: Lege, lège, legë, and -lege

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛdʒ/

Etymology 1

Noun

lege (uncountable)

  1. (US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature.

Etymology 2

Abbreviated from allege (“to assert”).

Verb

lege (third-person singular simple present leges, present participle leging, simple past and past participle leged)

  1. (obsolete) To allege; to assert.
    • Bishop Fisher
      Not only he legeth his mercy to bind his reason, but also his wysdome.
    • Chaucer, Court of Love, v. 1065.
      To reson faste, and ledge auctoritie.

Etymology 3

Clipping of legend.

Noun

lege (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leika, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lajə/, [ˈlɑjə], [ˈlɑːɪ]

Verb

lege (imperative leg, infinitive at lege, present tense leger, past tense legede, perfect tense har leget)

  1. play
  2. spawn
Usage notes

In compounds: "lege-".

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See leg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lajə/, [ˈlɑjə], [ˈlɑːɪ]

Noun

lege c

  1. plural indefinite of leg

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːɣə

Verb

lege

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of legen

Anagrams

German

Verb

lege

  1. First-person singular present of legen.
  2. Imperative singular of legen.
  3. First-person singular subjunctive I of legen.
  4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of legen.

Interlingua

Noun

lege (plural leges)

  1. law

Verb

lege

  1. present of leger
  2. imperative of leger

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lege m (plural leges)

  1. law

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

lege

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of legō

Noun

lēge

  1. ablative singular of lēx

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old English læce and Old Norse læknari

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /leːɡʲə/

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

  1. doctor

Synonyms

Verb

lege (present tense leger, past tense lega or leget, past participle lega or leget)

  1. heal, cure

lækje (Bokmål)

Derived terms

(from both noun and verb)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural legar, definite plural legane)

  1. doctor (physician)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

lege

  1. neuter past participle of liggja, liggje, ligga and ligge

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German legen, Dutch leggen, English lay.

Verb

lege

  1. to lay
  2. to put, to place

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈled͡ʒe/

Etymology 1

From Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx, from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

Noun

lege f (plural legi)

  1. law
  2. (archaic) religion, belief (in God or a divinity), credence
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

lege

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of lega.
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of lega.
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