leasing
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
leasing (plural leasings)
- (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
- c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus II]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
- fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, 'Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:
- Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about,
With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’,
With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid,
And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing.
Verb edit
leasing
- present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)
Etymology 3 edit
From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
leasing
- present participle and gerund of lease
Noun edit
leasing (countable and uncountable, plural leasings)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English leasing
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
leasing
- leasing (act of leasing something, especially if long-term)
Declension edit
Inflection of leasing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | leasing | leasingit | ||
genitive | leasingin | leasingien | ||
partitive | leasingiä | leasingejä | ||
illative | leasingiin | leasingeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | leasing | leasingit | ||
accusative | nom. | leasing | leasingit | |
gen. | leasingin | |||
genitive | leasingin | leasingien | ||
partitive | leasingiä | leasingejä | ||
inessive | leasingissä | leasingeissä | ||
elative | leasingistä | leasingeistä | ||
illative | leasingiin | leasingeihin | ||
adessive | leasingillä | leasingeillä | ||
ablative | leasingiltä | leasingeiltä | ||
allative | leasingille | leasingeille | ||
essive | leasinginä | leasingeinä | ||
translative | leasingiksi | leasingeiksi | ||
abessive | leasingittä | leasingeittä | ||
instructive | — | leasingein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “leasing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
leasing m (plural leasings)
Further reading edit
- “leasing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English leasing.
Noun edit
leasing m (definite singular leasingen, indefinite plural leasinger, definite plural leasingene)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from leasing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
leasing m inan (related adjective leasingowy)
- lease (contract granting use or occupation of property)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | leasing | leasingi |
genitive | leasingu | leasingów |
dative | leasingowi | leasingom |
accusative | leasing | leasingi |
instrumental | leasingiem | leasingami |
locative | leasingu | leasingach |
vocative | leasingu | leasingi |
Derived terms edit
- leasingować impf
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English leasing.
Noun edit
leasing n (uncountable)
Declension edit
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) leasing | leasingul |
genitive/dative | (unui) leasing | leasingului |
vocative | leasingule |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English leasing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
leasing m (plural leasings)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “leasing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English leasing.
Noun edit
leasing c
Declension edit
Declension of leasing | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | leasing | leasingen | — | — |
Genitive | leasings | leasingens | — | — |