different between lego vs lege

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

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