different between longe vs longie

English

Alternative forms

• lunge (UK)

Etymology 1

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd?/

Verb

longe (third-person singular simple present longes, present participle longeing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (US, transitive) To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

Translations

Noun

longe (plural longes)

1. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
2. (obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 2, Chapter 59, p. 252,^[1]

     […] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […]

3. (military) The training ground for a horse.
   • 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow’s Military Encyclopedia, New York: for the author, Volume 2, p. 230,^[2]

     LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• longæ
• longas

Noun

longe

1. plural of longa

References

• “longe” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Leong, elong, on leg

Afrikaans

Noun

longe

1. plural of long

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lon?e/
• Hyphenation: lon?ge
• Rhymes: -on?e

Adverb

longe

1. lengthily

Derived terms

• anta?longe (“long ago”)
• mallonge (“briefly”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Verb

longe

1. first-person singular present indicative of longer
2. third-person singular present indicative of longer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of longer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of longer
5. second-person singular imperative of longer

Interlingua

Adjective

longe (comparative plus longe, superlative le plus longe)

1. long

Latin

Etymology 1

From longus (“far, long”) + -?. Compare English long and Icelandic langt and lengi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lon.?e?/, [??????e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lon.d??e/, [?l?n??d???]

Adverb

long? (comparative longius, superlative longissim?)

1. (of space) long, a long way off, far, far off, at a distance

   Longe absum.

   I’m far away.

   Longe absum ab eius criminibus.

   I’m far away from his crimes.

2. (of time) long, for a long period of time

   (Charles François Lhomond, De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae, Lucius Cornelius Sulla)

3. widely, greatly, much, very much

   (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 14)

Synonyms

• (far): longiter

Derived terms

• long? sum

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

longe

1. vocative masculine singular of longus

References

• longe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• longe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• longe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Neapolitan

Adjective

longe

1. feminine plural of luongo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Derived from French long (“long”).

Noun

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. a rein for horses

Etymology 2

From Old Norse l?ngu, oblique singular case of langa, whence the form lange.

Noun

longe f or m (definite singular longa or longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. common ling, Molva molva

References

• “longe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• logne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Derived from French long (“long”).

Noun

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longar, definite plural longane)

1. a rein for horses

Etymology 2

From Old Norse l?ngu, neuter dative singular of langr (“long”).

Alternative forms

• longo (obsolete form)

Adverb

longe

1. a long time ago
2. already

Etymology 3

From Old Norse l?ngu, oblique singular case of langa (“ling”).

Noun

longe f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by lange

Anagrams

• logne, ongle

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lon.?e/, [?lo?.?e]

Adverb

longe

1. Alternative spelling of lange

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese longe, from Latin longe.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lõ.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lõ.?i/, [?l?õ????.??]

Adverb

longe (comparative mais longe superlative o mais longe)

1. far, a long way

   Antonym: perto

Adjective

longe m or f (plural longes, comparable)

1. distant, faraway

Further reading

• “longe” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Etymology 1

long +? -ie

Noun

longie (plural longies)

1. A Manx cat with a relatively long tail.

See also

• riser
• rumpie
• stumpie

Etymology 2

Noun

longie (plural longies)

1. Alternative form of lungie

Anagrams

• Legion, eloign, legion, ogle-in