lea
EnglishEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
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NounEdit
lea (plural leas)
- an open field, meadow
- XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
- Two children in two neighbor villages
- Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
- XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
TranslationsEdit
open field, meadow
Etymology 2Edit
Middle English [Term?], from Old French lier (“to bind”)
NounEdit
lea (plural leas)
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards
- Synonym: lay
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
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NounEdit
lea f (genitive leae); first declension
- A lioness
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Related termsEdit
- leō m
ReferencesEdit
- lea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- lea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- lea in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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VerbEdit
lea
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of leer.