different between lege vs lore

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /l??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: l?r, IPA^(key): /lo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /lo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: law (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lore, from Old English l?r, from Proto-West Germanic *lai?u, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.

Noun

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

1. All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

   the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;

     They heare him not, they have forgot his lore

     But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

2. The backstory created around a fictional universe.
3. (obsolete) Workmanship.
   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,

     About the which two serpents weren wound;

     Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,

     And by the tailes together firmely bound […]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).

Noun

lore (plural lores)

1. (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
2. (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Derived terms

• lored

Etymology 3

Verb

lore

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
3. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lese

Anagrams

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, role, rôle

Basque

Etymology

From Latin flos, florem.

Noun

lore inan

1. flower

Declension

Ido

Etymology

From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +? -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo.re/, /?l?.??/

Adverb

lore

1. (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time

Related terms

• lora (“then, now”)

See also

• ita (“that (person)”)
• ito (“that (thing)”)
• iti (“that (plural)”)
• pro ito (“therefore”)
• ibe (“there”)
• tala (“such kind of”)
  • tale (“thus”)
• tanta (“so much”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English l?r, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?. Compare Middle Low German lêre, lêr, Middle High German l?re, Middle Dutch lere, Old Frisian l?re.

Alternative forms

• loore, lare, lar, layre, loare, lere, leyre, leore, lære

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /la?r(?)/
• IPA^(key): /l??r(?)/

Noun

lore (plural lores or loren)

2. education, tutoring, mentoring; learning; the absorption of knowledge
3. lore, knowledge, information, especially:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

   1. (religion) religious beliefs, doctrine, orthodoxy
   2. area of study, subject, topic, science
   3. (rare) The foundations of a subject; the collected works on a topic.
4. recommendation, suggestion, tip; admonition, exhortation, pleading
5. A moral code; standards of conduct; a way of acting, standard.
6. A demand, order, or task
7. (rare) knowledge, aptitude, competence
8. (rare) significance, value, importance
9. (rare) tale, narrative

Derived terms

• larðewe
• larew
• larspel
• loresman
• lorfadyr
• lorþeine

Descendants

• English: lore
• Scots: lare, lair

References

• “l?r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Etymology 2

From Old English lor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??r(?)/

Noun

lore

2. loss (losing something)
3. loss (having soldiers killed in battle)
4. ruin, destruction, injury.

Descendants

• English: lore

References

• “l?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Tarantino

Adjective

lore m (possessive, plural)

1. theirs