different between lease vs servitude

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /li?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).

Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased) (chiefly dialectal)

1. (transitive) To gather.
2. (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
3. (transitive) To glean.
4. (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?asian (“to lie, tell lies”), from l?as (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

Derived terms

• leasing

Etymology 3

From Middle English lese, from Old English l?s (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *l?sw? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y-, *l?yd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?sa (“meadow”). See also leasow.

Alternative forms

• leaze

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. An open pasture or common.
   • 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:

     Since as a child I used to lie

     Upon the leaze and watch the sky,

     Never, I own, expected I

     That life would all be fair.

Etymology 4

From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?esan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan? (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).

Alternative forms

• leese (Scotland)

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.

Etymology 5

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin lax? (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German l?zan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen). Cognate with Old English l?tan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”). More at let.

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
2. (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
3. (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.

Derived terms

• re-lease

Translations

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
2. The period of such a contract.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:

     Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

     And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

3. A leasehold.

Derived terms

• off-lease

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: leasen
• ? English: leasing
  • ? Spanish: leasing
  • ? Finnish: leasing
  • ? Polish: leasing
  • ? Swedish: leasing

Related terms

• lessor, lessee

Etymology 6

From leash.

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

Anagrams

• Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?s/, /lis/
• Hyphenation: lease
• Homophone: lies

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lease.

Noun

lease f (plural leases, diminutive leaseje n)

1. lease

   Synonym: pacht

Derived terms

• leaseauto
• leasewagen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lease

1. first-person singular present indicative of leasen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
3. imperative of leasen

Middle English

Adjective

lease

1. Alternative form of les

Noun

lease

1. Alternative form of les

English

Etymology

From Middle French servitude, from Latin servit?s, from Latin servus (“slave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??v?t?u?d/, /-tju?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?v?tud/

Noun

servitude (countable and uncountable, plural servitudes)

1. The state of being a slave; slavery.
   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China

     In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.
2. (law) A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
3. (dated) Service rendered in the army or navy.
4. (obsolete) Servants collectively.
5. (archaic) The act of serving (food or drink, etc.); service.
   • 1857, Journal of Australasia (volume 2, page 38)

     The usual routine of confections and pastry follows, after which a galore of fruits of all kinds, with a chassè of excellent Mocha, the immediate servitude of which, after good dining, is, I think, universally acknowledged to be a great exhiliration^[sic].

Translations

See also

• servitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• serfdom

Anagrams

• divesture

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin servit?d?, from Latin servus.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

1. servitude, thralldom

Related terms

• serf
• servir

See also

• esclavage

Further reading

• “servitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin servitus, servitutem, probably a borrowing.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

1. servitude (the state of being a serf or slave)

   Synonym: servidão

Related terms

• servir