different between leger vs aeger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?d??(?)/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     a leger Evil

Etymology 2

A variant of ledger.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Noun

leger (plural legers)

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.

   • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”)

Verb

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”)

Anagrams

• regle

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.??r/
• Hyphenation: le?ger
• Rhymes: -e???r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leger, from Proto-West Germanic *legr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *legr?.

Noun

leger n (plural legers, diminutive legertje n)

1. army, armed forces

2. form (habitation of a hare)
3. (archaic) bed, crib
4. (figuratively) mass, multitude
5. Short for dijkleger.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: leër
• ? English: leaguer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

leger

1. Comparative form of leeg

Verb

leger

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

Anagrams

• geler, regel

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French léger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??????/, /le??e???/
• Hyphenation: le?ger

Adjective

leger (comparative legerer, superlative am legersten)

1. casual, informal
2. (of clothing) dressed down

Declension

Further reading

• “leger” in Duden online
• “leger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch legger (“ledger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???r/
• Hyphenation: lè?gêr

Noun

lègêr (first-person possessive legerku, second-person possessive legermu, third-person possessive legernya)

1. (education) a ledger, the marking register.

Further reading

• “leger” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??er/

Verb

leger

1. to read

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

l?ger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of l?g?

Middle English

Noun

leger

1. Alternative form of lygger

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leger m

1. indefinite plural of lege

Verb

leger

1. present of lege

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leger f

1. indefinite plural of lege

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-. Cognate with Old Frisian leger, Old Saxon legar, Dutch leger (“bed, camp, army”), Old High German legar (German Lager (“camp”)), Old Norse legr (Danish lejr, Swedish läger (“bed”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (ligrs). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (lékhos), Latin lectus (“bed”), Proto-Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian ??????? (ležát?)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le.jer/

Noun

le?er n

1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill

2. resting-place; couch, bed
3. deathbed, grave

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle English: leir, leire, lair, lare
  • English: lair
  • Scots: lair, lear, layer, lare

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin leg?, legere.

Verb

leger

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) to read

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• liger (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ler (Puter)

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

leger m (feminine singular legra, masculine plural legers, feminine plural legras)

1. (Sursilvan) merry, happy

   Synonym: allegher

Alternative forms

• legher (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Swedish

Adjective

leger (comparative legerare, superlative legerast)

1. Alternative form of legär

Inflection

Anagrams

• regel

English

Etymology

From Latin aeger (“sick”).

Adjective

aeger (not comparable)

1. (dated, Britain school slang) Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
2. (dated, Britain school slang) Relating to such an excused absence

Noun

aeger (plural aegers)

1. (dated, Britain school slang) An excused absence from classes due to illness
2. (dated, Britain school slang) A note excusing a student from classes due to illness
3. (dated, local dialect) A particularly high tidal wave on some rivers, esp. the Trent

Related terms

• aegrotat

Anagrams

• Eager, agree, eager, eagre, geare

Latin

Etymology

Presumably from Proto-Italic *aigros, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eygros, from *h?eyg-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ae?.?er/, [?äe???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.d??er/, [???d???r]

Adjective

aeger (feminine aegra, neuter aegrum, comparative aegrior, superlative aegerrimus, adverb aegr?); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. sick, ill
2. (figuratively) difficult, reluctant, troublesome
3. (figuratively) anxious, troubled, sad

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Noun

aeger m (genitive aegr?); second declension

1. sick person, invalid

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms

Related terms

• aegresc?
• aegrotaticius
• aegr?t?ti?
• aegr?t?

Descendants

• English: aeger
• Italian: egro
• Portuguese: egro

References

• aeger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aeger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aeger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.