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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(?)lak-, *l?k- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”).

Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian ???? (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term s?anca (Modern English shank).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l??/
• (some US dialects) IPA^(key): /le??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

leg (plural legs)

1. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.

2. In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

3. (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
4. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

5. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

6. (figuratively) Something that supports.

7. A stage of a journey, race etc.

8. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
9. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
10. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
11. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
12. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
13. (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.

14. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
15. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
16. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
17. (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.

    Synonym: on; Antonym: off

18. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
19. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
20. (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
21. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
22. (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:

      Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles.

23. (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
    • 2015, Homer L. Hall, ?Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)

      A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.

Alternative forms

• legge (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (side of a right triangle): cathetus

Derived terms

Translations

See leg/translations § Noun.

See also

Verb

leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)

1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

Derived terms

• leg it

References

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?d?/
• Homophone: ledge

Noun

leg (plural not attested)

1. Abbreviation of legislature.

2. Abbreviation of legend.

Adjective

leg (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of legislative.

Anagrams

• ELG, ElG, gel

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• legu

Etymology

From Latin lig?. Compare Romanian lega, leg.

Verb

leg (second-person singular present indicative ledz, third-person singular present indicative leadzi or leadze, second-person plural present indicative ligats, past participle ligatã)

1. I tie, bind.

Related terms

• ligari / ligare
• ligat
• ligãturã
• ligãmintu
• dizleg

See also

• adun
• mpriunedz

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?j?]
• Homophone: lej
• Rhymes: -aj

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leikr, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz.

Noun

leg c (singular definite legen, plural indefinite lege)

1. play, game
2. (zoology) spawning (fish)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

leg

1. imperative of lege

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

leg

1. neck; throat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?x/
• Rhymes: -?x

Verb

leg

1. first-person singular present indicative of leggen
2. imperative of leggen

Anagrams

• gel

German

Alternative forms

• lege

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?k/

Verb

leg

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of legen
2. singular imperative of legen
3. (colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen
4. (colloquial) third-person singular subjunctive I of legen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l??]
• Hyphenation: leg
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Back-formation from leg- (prefix forming superlative adjectives).

Noun

leg (plural legek)

1. (chiefly in the plural, informal) best, most (record-setting achievement, property or amount)

Declension

Etymology 2

From English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”).

Noun

leg (plural legek)

1. (darts) leg (single game played in darts)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

leg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg)

1. uterus

Declension

Derived terms

• leggöng
• legháls
• leghálssýking
• legnám

Lombard

Etymology 1

From legge.

Noun

leg

1. law

Etymology 2

From leggere.

Verb

leg

1. to read

Middle English

Alternative forms

• legge, leggue, leige, lige

Etymology

From Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

leg (plural legges)

1. leg, limb
2. shank, shin
3. leg (cut of meat)
4. leg armour
5. The stem of a wine glass

Descendants

• English: leg
• Scots: leg

References

• “leg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

leg

1. imperative of lege

Old Norse

Noun

leg n

1. burial place

Declension

Derived terms

• legkaup n (“burial fee”)
• legstaðr m (“burial place”)
• legsteinn m (“tombstone”)

References

• leg in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Homophone: lek

Noun

leg

1. genitive plural of lega

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?]

Verb

leg

1. first-person singular present indicative of lega
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of lega

Swedish

Adjective

leg

1. certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.

Noun

leg n

1. (slang) ID card showing the owner's age; abbreviation of legitimation.

Declension

See also

• lägg

Anagrams

• elg

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English leg.

Noun

leg

1. lower leg, foot

Synonyms

• ngar (western dialect)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse leg.

Noun

leg n (definite leje, dative lejen)

1. afterbirth from calving

Synonyms

• ättföring f
• li n

English

Etymology

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?'j?t, IPA^(key): /?d?d??t/
• Rhymes: -?d??t

Noun

digit (plural digits)

1. (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.

   The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

2. (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.

   Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.

3. (units of measure, astronomy) ¹?₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

   A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

4. (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹?₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
6. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
7. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
   • 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates

     The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.

8. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹?₃₆₀ of a circle.

Synonyms

• (numerical place): place, figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)
• (astronomical unit): finger (obsolete)
• (unit of length): finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth

Hyponyms

• (extremity of the hand or foot): finger, thumb, toe

Related terms

• digits

Derived terms

• digital
• digit counter
• digitize
• digit number (obsolete)
• digit pulse

Translations

Verb

digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)

1. (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

References

• "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.?it/

Noun

digit m (plural digits)

1. digit (number from 0-9)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• digite, digitus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?did?it/, /?did?itus/

Noun

digit (plural digitys)

1. digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

• English: digit

References

• “di?it, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.