different between leggo vs lego

English

Pronunciation

Contraction

leggo

1. (slang, chiefly imperative) Contraction of let go.
   • 1949, William Lindsay Gresham: Limbo Tower (page 87)

     He stepped in, gripping the orderly by the front of his white jacket. "Hey, leggo me. You’ll start hemorrhaging and they’ll blame me."

   • 1966, Richard Johns: Pagany (page 120) [1]

     Hey, leggo, mister! I want to stay up there in the sun! Jim picked up the kid and carried him.

   • 2005, Christine M McMahon: Choices Made: The Street Years

     “Hey, leggo,” Nick said pushing Jamy back a little. “What are you doin’?” “I just wanted to hug you.”

2. (slang, chiefly imperative) Contraction of let's go. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Noun

leggo (plural leggos)

1. A form of calypso music; lavway.

Anagrams

• Gogel, eglog, logge, oggle

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???o

Verb

leggo

1. first-person singular present indicative of leggere

Anagrams

• logge

English

Noun

lego (countable and uncountable, plural legos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lego

Anagrams

• Goel, Loge, Ogle, goel, loge, ogle

Finnish

Alternative forms

• leego, Lego, Leego

Etymology

From Danish LEGO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le(?)?o/, [?le?(?)?o?]
• Rhymes: -e?o
• Syllabification: le?go

Noun

lego

1. Lego, lego, Lego brick (type of plastic toy brick)

Declension

Derived terms

• leego (“tooth”) (slang)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto le?o, French loi, Italian legge, Spanish ley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?o/

Noun

lego (plural legi)

1. law

Derived terms

Italian

Verb

lego

1. first-person singular present indicative of legare

Anagrams

• gelo, gelò, gole

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (lég?, “I speak, I choose, I mean”) and Albanian mbledh.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

leg? (present infinitive legere, perfect active l?g?, supine l?ctum); third conjugation

1. I choose, select, appoint
3. I collect, gather, bring together
4. I read

5. (Medieval Latin) I teach, profess

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From l?x (“a formal motion for a law”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

l?g? (present infinitive l?g?re, perfect active l?g?v?, supine l?g?tum); first conjugation

1. I dispatch, send as ambassador
2. I deputize
3. I appoint by a last will or testament, leave or bequeath as a legacy

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: llegar
• Spanish: legar

References

• lego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lego in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

lego m (definite singular legoen, uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LEGO

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lègo f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lègu

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.??/

Noun

lego

1. vocative singular of lega

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.?u/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish Lego.

Alternative forms

• Lego

Noun

lego m (plural legos)

1. Lego (small, coloured plastic toy bricks made by the Lego Company)
2. (trademark generalisation) any similar brick toy
3. (figuratively) things that can be assembled together to form a larger thing

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lego

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of legar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?o/, [?le.??o]

Etymology 1

From Latin l?icus. Doublet of laico.

Adjective

lego (feminine lega, masculine plural legos, feminine plural legas)

1. ignorant, lay

Noun

lego m (plural legos, feminine lega, feminine plural legas)

1. layman

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lego

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of legar.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.?u/

Noun

lego ?

1. Lego

Declension

Anagrams

• geol., loge