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legacy
English
Etymology
From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin l?g?tia, from Latin l?g?tum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l???si/
- (some US dialects) IPA(key): /?le???si/
Noun
legacy (plural legacies)
- (law) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
- Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
- Synonym: heritage
- (education) The descendant of an alumnus.
Translations
Adjective
legacy
- Left over from the past; no longer current.
Translations
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devise
English
Etymology
From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devis?, from Latin d?vis?, frequentative of d?vid?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??va?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
- Hyphenation: de?vise
Verb
devise (third-person singular simple present devises, present participle devising, simple past and past participle devised)
- (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
- to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
- (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Translations
Noun
devise (plural devises)
- The act of leaving real property in a will.
- Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- The real property left in such a will.
- Design, devising.
- 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, page 83
- I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]
- 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, page 83
See also
- device
- devising
Anagrams
- sieved, viséed
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?s?
Noun
devise c (singular definite devisen, plural indefinite deviser)
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Declension
Further reading
- “devise” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.viz/
Noun
devise f (plural devises)
- (heraldry) motto
- (finance) assets in foreign currency
- (finance, by extension) currency
Verb
devise
- inflection of deviser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “devise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dévies, évides, évidés, vidées
Spanish
Verb
devise
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of devisar.
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