different between leam vs lema

English

Alternative forms

• leem, leme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English lemen, from Old English l?man, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

Verb

leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

Derived terms

• leamer

Etymology 2

From Middle English leme, from Old English l?oma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

Noun

leam (plural leams)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.

See also

• gleam

Etymology 3

See leamer, lien.

Noun

leam (plural leams)

1. A cord or strap for leading a dog.
   • 1808, Walter Scott, Conclusion to Queenhoo Hall (written by Joseph Strutt)

     a large blood-hound tied in a leam

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-

Latin

Noun

leam

1. accusative singular of lea

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• le + mi

Pronoun

leam

1. with me, by me

Derived terms

• leam-leat
• leamsa

See also

• prepositional pronoun

English

Etymology

First coined 1789, from Ancient Greek ???? (l?m?, “substance that gathers in the corner of the eye; rheum”).

Noun

lema (uncountable)

1. (physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.

Synonyms

• sebum palpebrale

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, male, meal, mela, mela-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?le.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?le.ma/

Noun

lema m (plural lemes)

1. (heraldry) motto
2. (lingusitics) lemma
3. (mathematics) lemma

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ??
• Roman: lêma

Adjective

lema (ngoko lemu, krama lema)

1. (polite) fat

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (l?m?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.ma/, [???e?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.ma/, [?l??m?]

Noun

l?ma f (genitive l?mae); first declension

1. rheum that collects in the corner of the eyes

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• gr?mia

References

• lema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Madurese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Numeral

lema

1. five

Maltese

Alternative forms

• lema'

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (lama?a). The original inflection with a final g? is now less common (see above). Otherwise the root was reanalysed as ending in a semivowel. For this case, moreover, there exist two conjugations (one with -a- in all forms and one of the type of beda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ma/

Verb

lema (imperfect jilma)

1. to glitter, glint, glimmer

Conjugation

• The perfect tense is often avoided. It can be replaced by kien + imperfect.

Derived terms

• limja

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lemma, from Ancient Greek ????? (lêmma). Compare Spanish lema.

Noun

lema m (plural lemas)

1. motto; slogan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??ma/
• Hyphenation: le?ma

Noun

léma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. lemma

Declension

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lemma, form Ancient Greek ????? (lêmma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lema/, [?le.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema

Noun

lema m (plural lemas)

1. motto
2. slogan (especially a political one)

   Synonym: eslogan

3. theme, subject
4. headword, term, title
5. lemma
6. (heraldry) motto

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough