ley
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See lea.
Noun edit
ley (plural leys)
- Alternative spelling of lea
- (agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
- A ley line.
- 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
- For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
ley line — see ley line
Adjective edit
ley (not comparable)
- (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
- (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
Translations edit
fallow; unseeded
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ley
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
ley
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Chavacano edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ley
Fula edit
Preposition edit
ley
- (Maasina) in
- A ɗuunnii sukkara ley cafe ɗe.
- You put too much sugar in the coffee.
- O tummbeke ley akalawal mobel am.
- He got into the back of my truck.
- Taa ŋawlunduree ley suudu ga, njehee sella.
- Don't wrestle in the house, go outside.
- under
References edit
- Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English lēah, lēaġe (“a clearing in the woods”).
Noun edit
ley (plural leys)
Descendants edit
Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.
Noun edit
ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)
Descendants edit
- Occitan: lei
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
ley f (plural leys)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ley f (plural leyes)
- law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
- law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
- law (particular piece of legislation)
- religion, credence, worship of a god
Hyponyms edit
- ley del buen samaritano
- ley natural (“natural law”)
Derived terms edit
- a la ley
- con todas las de la ley
- costumbre fuera de ley
- de buena ley
- de ley
- de mala ley
- decreto ley
- fuera de la ley
- generales de la ley
- hecha la ley, hecha la trampa
- imperio de la ley
- ley de atracción
- ley de bases
- ley de Coulomb
- ley de Dios
- ley de enjuiciamiento
- ley de Hooke
- ley de la selva
- ley de la trampa
- ley de la ventaja
- ley de los grandes números
- ley de Moisés
- ley de Murphy
- ley de Ohm
- ley de vida
- ley del embudo
- ley del silencio
- ley fundamental
- ley marcial
- ley natural
- ley orgánica
- ley seca
- ley universal
- proposición de ley
- proposición no de ley
- proyecto de ley (“bill, draft law”)
- proyecto de ley
- quebrar la ley, quebrantar la ley (“to break the law”)
- reserva de ley
- tablas de la ley
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ley”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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