longe

See also: Longe, longé, and long e

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌndʒ/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Verb

longe (third-person singular simple present longes, present participle longeing, simple past and past participle longed)

  1. (US) To work a horse in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
Translations

Noun

longe (plural longes)

  1. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
  2. (obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Smollett to this entry?)
  3. The training ground for a horse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

longe

  1. plural of longa

References

Anagrams

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlonɡe/
  • Hyphenation: lon‧ge
  • Rhymes: -onɡe

Adverb

longe

  1. lengthily

Derived terms

  • antaŭlonge (“long ago”)
  • mallonge (“briefly”)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔ̃ʒ/
  • Audio (Belgium)(file)

Verb

longe

  1. first-person singular present indicative of longer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of longer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of longer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of longer
  5. second-person singular imperative of longer

Interlingua

Adjective

longe (comparative plus longe, superlative le plus longe)

  1. long

Latin

Etymology

From longus (“far, long”) + -ē. Compare English long and Icelandic langt and lengi.

Pronunciation

Adverb

longē (comparative longius, superlative longissimē)

  1. (of space) long, a long way off, far, far off, at a distance
    Longe absum.
    I’m far away.
    Longe absum ab eius criminibus.
    I’m far away from his crimes.
  2. (of time) long, for a long period of time
  3. widely, greatly, much, very much

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: lluny
    • Occitan: luènh, luònh
  • Italian: lungi
  • Romanian: lung
  • Spanish: lueñe

Adjective

longe

  1. vocative masculine singular of longus

References

  • longe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • longe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • longe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
    • (ambiguous) far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
    • (ambiguous) the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
    • (ambiguous) this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est
    • (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
    • (ambiguous) to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
    • (ambiguous) Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2)
    • (ambiguous) to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
    • (ambiguous) to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)

Neapolitan

Adjective

longe

  1. feminine plural of luongo

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloŋɡe/

Adjective

longe

  1. long

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Adverb

longe

  1. long

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese longe, from Latin longe.

Pronunciation

Adverb

longe (comparative mais longe superlative o mais longe)

  1. far, a long way

Antonyms

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