lego

Noun

lego (countable and uncountable, plural legos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lego

Anagrams

• Goel, Loge, Ogle, goel, loge, ogle

Alternative forms

• leego, Lego, Leego

Etymology

< Danish LEGO

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɡo/
• IPA^(key): /ˈleːɡo/
• Hyphenation: le‧go

Noun

lego

1. LEGO, lego (type of plastic toy brick)

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto leĝo, French loi, Italian legge, Spanish ley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.ɡo/

Noun

lego (plural legi)

1. law

Verb

lego

1. first-person singular indicative present tense of legare

Anagrams

• gelo, gelò
• gole

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-. Cognates include Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “I speak, I choose, I mean”) and Albanian mbledh.

Etymology 2

From lēx (“a formal motion for a law”).

References

• lego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lego in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to read Plato: Platonem legere, lectitare
    
  • to study Plato: Platonem legere et cognoscere
    
  • the reader: legentes, ii qui legunt
    
  • to leave money to a person in one's will: pecuniam alicui legare
    
  • a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
    
  • to elect to the senate: in senatum legere, eligere
    
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
    
  • to hug the coast: oram legere (Liv. 21. 51)
    
  • (ambiguous) this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of speech, grammar: leges dicendi
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • (ambiguous) the constitution: instituta et leges
    
  • (ambiguous) to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a bill before the notice of the people: legem, rogationem promulgare (Liv. 33. 46)
    
  • (ambiguous) to propose a law in the popular assembly: legem ferre or simply ferre ad populum, ut...
    
  • (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): legem suadere (opp. dissuadere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): pro lege dicere
    
  • (ambiguous) to formally propose a law to the people: legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to carry a law (said of the magistrate): legem perferre (Liv. 33. 46)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reject a bill: legem antiquare (opp. accipere, iubere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to vote for a law: legem sciscere (Planc. 14. 35)
    
  • (ambiguous) to ratify a law (used of the people): legem iubere
    
  • (ambiguous) to let a bill become law (of the people and senate): legem sancire
    
  • (ambiguous) Solo ordained by law that..: Solo lege sanxit, ut or ne
    
  • (ambiguous) to replace an old law by a new: legem abrogare (Att. 3. 23. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to abolish a law: legem tollere (Leg. 2. 12. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to protest against a law (used of the veto, intercessio, of plebeian tribunes): legi intercedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a law before the notice of the people: legem proponere in publicum
    
  • (ambiguous) to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
    
  • (ambiguous) to declare a law valid: legem ratam esse iubere
    
  • (ambiguous) to transgress a law: a lege discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est
    
  • (ambiguous) the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
    
  • (ambiguous) to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
    
  • (ambiguous) a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)
    
  • (ambiguous) to swear obedience to a law: in legem iurare (Sest. 16. 37)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bound by a law: lege teneri
    
  • (ambiguous) on condition of..: ea lege, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • (ambiguous) to upset the whole constitution: omnes leges confundere
    
  • (ambiguous) lawlessness; anarchy: leges nullae
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to law with a person: (ex) iure, lege agere cum aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be condemned under the Lex Plautia: lege Plautia damnari (Sall. Cat. 31. 4)
    

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɡu/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish Lego.

Etymology 2

Etymology 1

From Latin laicus.

Etymology 2