different between lege vs loge

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?d?/

Etymology 1

Noun

lege (uncountable)

1. (US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature.

Etymology 2

Abbreviated from allege (“to assert”).

Verb

lege (third-person singular simple present leges, present participle leging, simple past and past participle leged)

1. (obsolete) To allege; to assert.
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms

     Not onely he legeth his mercy to bynde his reason, but also his wysdome.

   • c. 1360, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love

     To reson faste, and ledge auctoritie.

Etymology 3

Clipping of legend.

Alternative forms

• leg

Noun

lege (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.

Anagrams

• Egle, glee

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laj?/, [?l???]
• Homophone: leje

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leika, from Proto-Germanic *laikan? (“to jump, play”), cognate with Norwegian leike, leke, Swedish leka, Gothic ???????????????????????? (laikan).

Verb

lege (past tense legede, past participle leget)

1. to play
2. to spawn

Inflection

Usage notes

In compounds: "lege-".

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lege c

1. indefinite plural of leg

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???

Verb

lege

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of legen

Anagrams

• egel, geel, gele, leeg

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lege

1. inflection of legen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Interlingua

Noun

lege (plural leges)

1. law

Verb

lege

1. present of leger
2. imperative of leger

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lege m (plural leges)

1. law

Related terms

• leal

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.?e/, [??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.d??e/, [?l??d???]

Verb

lege

1. second-person singular present active imperative of leg?

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.?e/, [???e???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.d??e/, [?l??d???]

Noun

l?ge

1. ablative singular of l?x

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin leuca, leuga, from Proto-Celtic *lewg?.

Alternative forms

• leege, liege, lewke, leuge, leke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???(?)/, /?l?u??(?)/, /?l??k(?)/

Noun

lege (plural leges)

2. league (unit of meaurement)

Descendants

• English: league

References

• “l?ge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lige, liege; further etymology is disputed.

Alternative forms

• liege, leege, lyge, liage, legi, lyege, legge, leyge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?d?(?)/, /?li?d?(?)/

Noun

lege (plural leges or lege)

2. (One of) one's subjects or vassals; (one of) those under one's control.
3. A hireling or servant; one who is in another's service.
4. (rare) One's feudal overlords or superiors.

Related terms

• lege man
• ligeaunce

Descendants

• English: liege
• Scots: liege

References

• “l?ge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Adjective

lege

1. Being able to command obedience from one's inferiors.
2. Tied by pledge to obey one's superiors; being subjected by an authority to duty.
3. (rare) Otherwise bound by feudal obligations.

Descendants

• English: liege

References

• “l???e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish læge

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /le????/

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

1. a doctor

Synonyms

• doktor

Verb

lege (imperative leg, present tense leger, passive leges, simple past lega or leget or legte, past participle lega or leget or legt, present participle legende)

1. to heal, cure

Related terms

lækje (Bokmål)

Derived terms

References

• “lege” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Danish læge. Confer also lækjar, which is borrowed from Swedish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural legar, definite plural legane)

1. doctor (physician)

   Synonyms: dokter, lækjar

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lega.

Alternative forms

• lega, lego, legu, logo, lugu (all superseded and/or dialectal)

Noun

lege f (definite singular lega, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

1. the act of lying (resting in a horizontal position)
2. a place where something lies, e.g. an animal

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Participle

lege

1. neuter singular of legen

Verb

lege

1. supine of liggje
2. supine of ligge

References

• “lege” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German legen, Dutch leggen, English lay.

Verb

lege

1. to lay
2. to put, to place

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?led??e/

Etymology 1

From Latin l?gem, accusative of l?x, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s, from *le?- (“to gather”).

Noun

lege f (plural legi)

1. law
2. (archaic) religion, belief (in God or a divinity), credence

Declension

Synonyms

• (belief): religie, credin??

Related terms

• legal
• legitim

Etymology 2

Verb

lege

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of lega
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of lega

English

Etymology

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubij? (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English l?af (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:

     About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.

   • In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol II, ch. 43:

     Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.

   • Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

Translations

Anagrams

• Goel, LEGO, Lego, Ogle, goel, lego, ogle

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French loge. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?.??/, /?l??.??/
• Hyphenation: lo?ge

Noun

loge f (plural loges, diminutive logetje n)

1. (theater) theatre box, compartment. [from 18th c.]
2. (freemasonry) Masonic lodge. [from 18th c.]
3. reception area, lobby (of a hotel for instance). [from late 19th or 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (Masonic lodge): tempel, werkplaats
• (reception area): receptie

Hyponyms

• (theater box): engelenbak, skybox

Derived terms

• ereloge

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?.??/
• Hyphenation: lo?ge

Verb

loge

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of liegen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?.??/
• Hyphenation: lo?ge

Verb

loge

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of logen

French

Etymology

Old French, from Frankish *laubij? (“arbour, protective roof, shelter made of foliage”). The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

loge f (plural loges)

1. (freemasonry) lodge
2. (theater) box
3. (obsolete) hut

Derived terms

• être aux premières loges

Related terms

• logement

Descendants

• ? Dutch: loge
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: losje
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: losje
• ? Portuguese: loja
• ? Swedish: loge

Verb

loge

1. first-person singular present indicative of loger
2. third-person singular present indicative of loger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loger
5. second-person singular imperative of loger

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Old French, from Frankish *laubij?.

Noun

loge f (plural loges)

1. hut (small often wooden building)

Verb

loge

1. inflection of loger, logier:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Descendants

• French: loge
  • ? Dutch: loge
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: losje
  • ? Norwegian Nynorsk: losje
  • ? Portuguese: loja
  • ? Swedish: loge

References

• loge on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• lue (noun and verb, more common)

Etymology

• (noun): From Old Norse logi.
• (verb): From Old Norse loga.

Noun

loge m (definite singular logen, indefinite plural loger, definite plural logene)

1. flame

Verb

loge (present tense loger, past tense loga or loget, past participle loga or loget)

1. burn forcefully
2. shine, light

References

• “loge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Shares a far back origin with lys (“light”). Thus it ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, shine”).

• (noun): From Old Norse logi
• (verb): From Old Norse loga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lo?.??/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: låge

Alternative forms

• loga (verb) (a and split infinitives)

Noun

loge m (definite singular logen, indefinite plural logar, definite plural logane)

1. a flame
2. a torch

Verb

loge (present tense logar, past tense loga, past participle loga, passive infinitive logast, present participle logande, imperative log)

1. to burn with a flame, blaze
2. (figuratively, by extension) to liven (up), inspire

Synonyms

• (flame): eld, flamme
• (torch): fakkel
• (to burn brightly): blusse, flamme, skine
• (inspire): inspirere

See also

• i lys loge
• lue (Bokmål, noun and verb)

Etymology 2

Related to lag and liggje.

Alternative forms

• lògu, lugu (superseded and/or dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lo?.??/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: låge

Noun

loge f (definite singular loga, indefinite plural loger, definite plural logene)

1. (weaving) a warp (thread running lengthwise in woven fabric

   Synonym: renningstråd

2. (in compounds) something that lies down

Derived terms

• forloge
• iloge
• nedloge
• åloge

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lu?.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

loge m (definite singular logen)

1. Nonstandard spelling of losje.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• loget (non-standard since 1901)
• logi (non-standard since 2012)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lo?.??/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: låge

Participle

loge

1. neuter singular of logen

Verb

loge

1. supine of ljuge
2. supine of lyge

References

• “loge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lego

Slovene

Noun

loge

1. accusative plural of log

Swedish

Etymology 1

From French loge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo??/

Noun

loge c

1. A backstage dressing room for actors at a theatre.
2. A private seating chamber at a theatre.
3. A section or local chapter of an order (for instance freemasons).

Declension

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lu???/

Noun

loge c

1. A barn with a strong and flat wooden floor, suitable for threshing or dancing.

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loge

1. subjunctive of le.

Anagrams

• geol., lego

Volapük

Noun

loge

1. dative singular of log