different between leche vs fleche

English

Noun

leche (plural leches)

1. Archaic form of lechwe.

Anagrams

• Leech, chele, leech

Cebuano

Noun

leche

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of letse

Interjection

leche

1. (vulgar, offensive) Alternative spelling of letse

Middle English

Etymology 1

Probably from Old English *læc, *lec, compare leccan (“to wet, moisten”).

Alternative forms

• lecche, lache, lacche, lac, liche, leg, lage (in names)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??t??/, /l?t??/

Noun

leche (plural leches)

1. an infusion
2. a sluggish stream

Descendants

• English: leach, letch
• Yola: letch

References

• “l??ch(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French lesche, laiche, leske.

Alternative forms

• leyche, leshe, leyshe, lese, leske
• lete, lette, lethe, lede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??t??(?)/, /l?t??(?)/

Noun

leche (plural leches)

1. a strip, slice (cook)

References

• “l??che, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English l?ce, l?ce, from Proto-West Germanic *l?k?.

Alternative forms

• lech, lecche, lache
• læce, læche, leache, liache (early)

Noun

leche (plural leches)

1. a physician or surgeon

Descendants

• English: leech (archaic)
• Yola: leech

References

• “l??che, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

From Old English l?ce, l?ce.

Alternative forms

• lech
• læce (early)

Noun

leche (plural leches)

1. a bloodsucking worm

Descendants

• English: leech

References

• “l??che, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish leche, from an earlier *leite<*laite, from Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *?lákts. Compare Catalan llet, Esperanto lakto, French lait, Friulian lat, Interlingua lacte, Italian latte, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?let??e/, [?le.t??e]
• Hyphenation: le?che

Noun

leche f (plural leches)

1. (food) milk

2. (slang, vulgar) cum, semen

   Synonym: esperma

Derived terms

• (diminutive): lechita

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: letse
• ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: lieche

Interjection

leche

1. (vulgar, Spain) shit

Verb

leche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lechar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lechar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lechar.

English

Noun

fleche (plural fleches)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Verb

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Anagrams

• fleech

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fleche.

Noun

fleche f (plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Descendants

• French: flèche
  • ? Dutch: flits
    • ? Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
      • ? German: Flitz
  • ? English: flèche

Old French

Alternative forms

• flecche, fleke

Etymology

From Frankish *fliukkija, from Proto-Germanic *fliukkij?.

Noun

fleche f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Synonyms

• saete

Descendants

• Middle French: fleche
  • French: flèche
    • ? Dutch: flits
      • ? Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
        • ? German: Flitz
    • ? English: flèche
• Picard: flèche (Athois)
• Walloon: flèche (Forrières)
• ? Galician: frecha
• ? Middle Dutch: vlieke (reborrowing)
  • Dutch: vliek
• ? Middle English: flecche
• ? Medieval Latin: flechia, flecha, flecca [13th c., France]

References

Spanish

Verb

fleche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of flechar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of flechar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of flechar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of flechar.