different between lesse vs lessen

English

Adverb

lesse (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of less.

Anagrams

• Slees, leses, seels, seles

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• läse, lease (western Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German lesan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?z?/

Verb

lesse (third-person singular present liss or lisst or less or lesst, past tense los, past participle jelesse or gelesse)

1. (Ripuarian, eastern Moselle Franconian) to read

Dutch

Verb

lesse

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lessen

Hungarian

Etymology

les +? -je

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????]
• Hyphenation: les?se

Verb

lesse

1. third-person singular subjunctive present definite of les

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -esse

Verb

lesse

1. third-person singular past historic of leggere

Adjective

lesse

1. feminine plural of lesso

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lesce, lasse
• leasse (early)

Etymology

From Old English l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/, /l??s/

Adverb

lesse

1. less

Descendants

• English: less
• Yola: lhose

References

• “l??s(se, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Verb

lesse

1. First-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ler
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) imperfect subjunctive of ler

English

Etymology

From Middle English lessenen, lasnen, equivalent to less +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l??s?n, IPA^(key): /?l?s?n/
• Rhymes: -?s?n
• Homophone: lesson

Verb

lessen (third-person singular simple present lessens, present participle lessening, simple past and past participle lessened)

1. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
   • a. 1686, Benjamin Calamy, a sermon

     Charity […] shall lessen his punishment.

   • December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul

     St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
2. (intransitive) To become less.

Translations

Conjunction

lessen

1. (nonstandard, dialect) unless.

Anagrams

• Elsens, elsens, lenses, sensel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?s?(n)/
• Rhymes: -?s?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lesschen, from a merger of two Old Dutch [Term?] verbs:

• *leskan, from Proto-Germanic *leskan?; class 5 strong, intransitive.
• lesken, from Proto-Germanic *laskijan?; class 1 weak, causative of the first verb.

Verb

lessen

1. (transitive) to quench (thirst)

Inflection

Derived terms

• blussen

Etymology 2

From les +? -en.

Verb

lessen

1. (intransitive) to take a lesson (usually a driving lesson)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lessen

1. Plural form of les

Hungarian

Etymology

les +? -jen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????n]
• Hyphenation: les?sen

Verb

lessen

1. third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of les

Swedish

Adjective

lessen

1. Alternative spelling of ledsen

Anagrams

• selens