different between pes vs les

English

Etymology

From Latin p?s (“foot”).

Noun

pes (plural pedes)

1. the foot of a human
2. the hoof of a quadruped
3. clubfoot or talipes
4. (music) a neume representing two notes ascending

Synonyms

• (neume): podatus

Anagrams

• EPS, EPs, ESP, Eps, PSE, SEP, SPE, Sep, Sep., eps, esp, esp., sep

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pes, from Vulgar Latin *p?sum, from Latin pensum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?p?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pes/

Noun

pes m (plural pesos)

1. weight (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• contrapès
• fer el pes
• sobrepès

Related terms

• pesar

Further reading

• “pes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cornish

Alternative forms

• pys

Noun

pes f (singulative pesen)

1. (Revived Late Cornish) peas

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?s]
• Hyphenation: pes
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Old Czech pes, from Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Noun

pes m anim (feminine psice)

1. (mammals) dog
2. male dog
3. scoundrel, bad person

Declension

Antonyms

• (male dog): fena

Derived terms

Further reading

• pes in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pes in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pes

1. genitive plural of peso

Alternative forms

• pesos

Friulian

Alternative forms

• peš (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin piscis, piscem.

Noun

pes m (plural pes)

1. fish

Related terms

• pescjâ
• pescjadôr
• pescjarie
• pescje
• pessâr

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pest, from Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?s]
• Hyphenation: pès

Noun

pes or pès

1. pest, plague.

   Synonym: sampar

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *p?ds (compare Sanskrit ??? (pád), Ancient Greek ???? (poús) and Old English f?t, English foot).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe?s/, [pe?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pes/, [p?s]

Noun

p?s m (genitive pedis); third declension

1. a foot, in its senses as
   1. (anatomy) a human foot

   2. (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
   3. (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
   4. (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
   5. (geography) the base of a mountain
   6. (furniture) the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.
2. (figuratively) a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
3. (nautical) a rope attached to a sail in order to set
4. (music) tempo, pace, time
5. (botany) the pedicel or stalk of a fruit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Hyponyms

• (metrical foot): trochaeus; pes dissyllbus or disyllbus, pes bibrevis, choreus, jambus, spondeus, spondius, spondeos (2-syllable feet); pes trisyllabus, amphibrachus, amphibrachys, amphimacrus, dactylus, extensipes, molossus, pes anapaestus, pes antanapaestus, pes antibacchius, pes bacchius, pes creticus, pes hippius (3-syllable feet); pes tetrasyllbus, antispastus, chorjambus, dichoreus, dijambus, dispondeus, epitritus, paeon, proceleumaticus, proceleusmaticus (4-syllable feet); pes pentasyllbus, dochmius, mesobrachys, mesomacros, pariambodes, probrachys, pes amoebaeus, pes antamoebaeus, pes orthius (5-syllable feet)

Meronyms

• (unit of length): decempeda (10 pedes)

See also

• pede tell?rem puls?
• pedem effero
• pedem fero
• pedem refero
• pedes navales
• si in fundo pedem posuisses
• a pedibus usque ad caput
• alterno pede terram quatere

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• pes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• pes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

pes

1. Alternative form of pese

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Noun

pes m

1. (mammals) dog

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: pes

Further reading

• “pes”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pax.

Noun

pes f (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pes)

1. Alternative form of pais (“peace”)
   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar

     Va t'en de ci ! Lai me aveir pes.

     Go, leave me! Let me have peace.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s/

Noun

pes m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) dog

Synonyms

• pas

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s/

Noun

pes m (genitive singular psa, nominative plural psi, psy, genitive plural psov)

1. dog

Declension

Derived terms

• psí
• psí?ek
• psík
• psisko
• psí?a

Further reading

• pes in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s/

Noun

p??s m anim (female equivalent psíca)

1. dog

   Synonym: k?ža

Inflection

Further reading

• “pes”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pes/, [?pes]
• Homophone: pez (non-Castilian)

Noun

pes

1. plural of pe

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English face.

Noun

pes

1. (anatomy) face

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology 1

From English face.

Noun

pes

1. face

Etymology 2

Noun

pes

1. (eastern dialect) a ripe coconut

Usage notes

Pes is the fifth stage of coconut growth. It is preceded by kopespes and followed by u.

English

Alternative forms

• lez

Pronunciation

• (UK, US), IPA^(key): /l?z/
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

les (plural leses)

1. (slang, colloquial) Clipping of lesbian.

Adjective

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

1. (slang, colloquial) Clipping of lesbian.

Anagrams

• ELs, ESL, LSE, SLE, els

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch les (“lesson”), from Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/

Noun

les (plural lesse, diminutive lesje)

1. lesson

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that one”).

Pronoun

les

1. them (indirect object)

Synonyms

• lis

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illas.

Article

les f pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, masculine plural los)

1. (definite) the

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /l?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /les/
• Rhymes: -es

Article

les f pl (masculine plural els, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)

1. the; feminine plural definite article

Pronoun

les (enclitic and proclitic)

1. them (feminine, direct object)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin laesus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?l?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?l?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?les/

Adjective

les (feminine lesa, masculine plural lesos, feminine plural leses)

1. (law) harmed

Derived terms

• crim de lesa humanitat

Related terms

• il·lès

Further reading

• “les” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech les, from Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s]
• Hyphenation: les
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: lez

Noun

les m inan

1. forest

Declension

Synonyms

• hvozd

Related terms

• lesní
• lesník
• jak se do lesa volá, tak se z lesa ozývá

Further reading

• les in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• les in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

les c

1. indefinite genitive singular of le

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Noun

les f (plural lessen, diminutive lesje n)

1. course, lesson

Derived terms

• gymles
• gymnastiekles
• lesgeven
• lesplan
• lesrooster
• lessen
• paardrijles
• rijles
• zangles
• zwemles

Descendants

• Afrikaans: les
• ? Indonesian: les

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

les

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

Anagrams

• els

French

Etymology

From Middle French les, from Old French les, from Latin ill?s m and ill?s f which are the accusative plurals of ille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le/
• Homophones: lé, lés

Article

les

1. plural of le: the
2. plural of la: the

Usage notes

• de les is never used: contracted into des.
• à les is never used: contracted into aux.

Pronoun

les ?

1. plural of le: them
2. plural of la: them

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “les” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• sel

Galician

Verb

les

1. second-person singular present indicative of ler

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?s/

Verb

les

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lesen
2. (colloquial) singular imperative of lesen

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *lä?? (“hiding place; lurk”). Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (l?š-), Northern Mansi [script needed] (l??-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

les (plural lesek)

2. cover, hideaway, ambush (the place where one is concealed, in wait to attack by surprise, or the act of concealing oneself there)

   Synonyms: lesállás, leshely

   Hypernyms: búvóhely, rejtekhely, (hiding place in general) rejtek

3. (hunting) hide, blind
4. (soccer) offside

   Synonyms: lesállás, leshelyzet

Declension

Verb

les

2. (transitive) to spy, peep, peek
3. (transitive) to stare, goggle, eye
4. (transitive) to cheat at a test by looking at someone else's work

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (ambush): les in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to spy): les in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

les n (genitive singular less, nominative plural les)

1. (linguistics) lexeme (set of inflected forms taken by a single word)
2. (computing) lexeme (individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis)

Declension

Synonyms

• (lexeme): flettiorð

Derived terms

• lesgreining
• lesgreinir

See also

• tóki

Verb

les

1. first-person singular of lesa (“to read”)

   Ég les mikið af þýskum bókum.

   I read a lot of German books.

2. third-person singular of lesa (“to read”)

   Pálmi les alltaf sömu söguna, þótt hann eigi margar bækur.

   Pálmi always reads the same story, even though he has many books.

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch les (“course, lesson”), from Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s]
• Hyphenation: lès

Noun

lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

1. (education, colloquial) cram school, private tuition.

Verb

lès

1. (education, colloquial) to cram, to study hard, to learn at cram school.

Etymology 2

From Dutch lis (“reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s]
• Hyphenation: lès

Noun

lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

1. rein.

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronoun

les

1. (dative) to them

Usage notes

• Precedes conjugated verbs.
• Can be of mixed gender (not just masculine).

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin illas.

Article

les f (plural)

1. the

See also

• l
• la, l'
• i

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lese, lees, leas, leasse

Etymology

From Old English l?as (“false, void, loose”).

Cognate with Middle High German l?s (“loose”), Old Swedish lø?s (“loose”); a doublet of loos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??s/

Adjective

les

1. false; lying; deceptive

Noun

les (uncountable)

1. falsehood; a lie

Middle French

Etymology

from Old French les, from Latin ill?s m and ill?s f

Article

les m pl or f pl (masculine singular le, feminine singular la)

1. the

Descendants

• French: les

Norman

Pronunciation

Article

les pl (singular lé, and la)

1. Alternative form of l's

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

les

1. imperative of lese

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

les

1. present tense of lesa
2. imperative of lesa

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Noun

les m

1. forest

   Synonym: hvozd

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: les

Further reading

• “les”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Etymology

From Latin illas and illos.

Article

les

1. the (feminine plural oblique definite article)
2. the (feminine plural nominative definite article)
3. the (masculine plural oblique definite article)

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle French: les
  • French: les

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?es?/

Pronoun

les

1. third-person singular masculine of la

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Noun

les

1. tail

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lê?s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?s? (“tree, forest”).

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) lij?s

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. coffin
2. (regionally) lumber
3. (regionally) forest, woods

Declension

Etymology 2

From German Löss.

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (geology) loess

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?s/

Noun

les m (genitive singular lesa, nominative plural lesy, genitive plural lesov, declension pattern of dub)

1. forest

Declension

Further reading

• les in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?s/

Noun

l??s m inan

1. wood

Inflection

Further reading

• “les”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?les/, [?les]

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s, dative plural of ille.

Pronoun

les

1. dative of ellos and ellas; to them, for them
2. dative of ustedes; to you all, for you all (formal)

See also

Etymology 2

Gender-neutral e replaces the gendered endings/elements a and o.

Article

les m pl or f pl

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) the

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English lazy.

Adjective

les

1. lazy
2. tired, fed up

Verb

les

1. be lazy
2.  be tired, be fed up

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?s/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lace.

Noun

les f (plural lesau, not mutable)

1. lace (light fabric patterned with holes)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lease.

Noun

les f (plural lesoedd, not mutable)

1. lease

Derived terms

• lesddeiliad (“leaseholder”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “les”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies