different between leese vs lesse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?z/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lesen, from Old English *l?osan (only attested in compounds: bel?osan, forl?osan, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *leusan? (“to lose”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut; sever; separate; loosen; lose”).

Verb

leese (third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past lore or leesed, past participle lorn or leesed)

1. (obsolete) To lose.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 5:

     But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,

     Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

   • a. 1598, William Cecil, Advice to his son

     They would rather leese their friend than their jest.

Related terms

• forlese

Etymology 2

From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?san, l?esan (“to let loose; release”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan?. Cognate with Dutch lozen, German lösen, Swedish lösa.

Verb

leese (third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past and past participle leesed)

1. (obsolete) To release, set free.
2. (obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.

Etymology 3

Compare French léser, Latin laesus.

Verb

leese

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hurt.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

English

Adverb

lesse (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of less.

Anagrams

• Slees, leses, seels, seles

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• läse, lease (western Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German lesan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?z?/

Verb

lesse (third-person singular present liss or lisst or less or lesst, past tense los, past participle jelesse or gelesse)

1. (Ripuarian, eastern Moselle Franconian) to read

Dutch

Verb

lesse

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lessen

Hungarian

Etymology

les +? -je

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????]
• Hyphenation: les?se

Verb

lesse

1. third-person singular subjunctive present definite of les

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -esse

Verb

lesse

1. third-person singular past historic of leggere

Adjective

lesse

1. feminine plural of lesso

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lesce, lasse
• leasse (early)

Etymology

From Old English l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/, /l??s/

Adverb

lesse

1. less

Descendants

• English: less
• Yola: lhose

References

• “l??s(se, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Verb

lesse

1. First-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ler
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) imperfect subjunctive of ler