ley
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See lea.
NounEdit
ley (plural leys)
- Alternative spelling of lea
- 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: […]
- 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ley (not comparable)
- (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
- (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ley
- Archaic form of lye.
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
ley
AnagramsEdit
ChavacanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ley
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English lēah, lēaġe (“a clearing in the woods”).
NounEdit
ley (plural leys)
DescendantsEdit
Old OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.
NounEdit
ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)
DescendantsEdit
- Occitan: lei
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
ley f (plural leys)
- Obsolete spelling of lei
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lēgem, singular accusative of lēx (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
HyponymsEdit
- ley del buen samaritano
- ley natural (“natural law”)
Derived termsEdit
- con todas las de la ley
- de buena ley
- de mala ley
- fuera de la ley
- hecha la ley, hecha la trampa
- imperio de la ley
- ley de Coulomb
- ley de Hooke
- ley de la selva
- ley de la ventaja
- ley del embudo
- ley de los grandes números
- ley del silencio
- ley de Murphy
- ley de Ohm
- ley de vida
- ley orgánica
- ley seca
- proyecto de ley
- proyecto de ley (“bill, draft law”)
- quebrar la ley, quebrantar la ley (“to break the law”)
- tablas de la ley
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ley”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014