different between resident vs leger

English

Etymology

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin resid?ns, present participle of reside? (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sede? (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?d(?)nt/

Noun

resident (plural residents)

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
3. A physician receiving specialized medical training.

4. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
6. (espionage) Alternative form of rezident

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.

   resident in the city or in the country

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   He is our resident computer expert.

3. (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
   • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year

     stable and resident like a rock

   • 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert

     one there still resident as day and night

4. (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• resident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• resident at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dniester, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin resid?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.zi?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.zi?den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.zi?dent/

Noun

resident m or f (plural residents)

1. resident

Related terms

• residència
• residir

Further reading

• “resident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “resident” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “resident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “resident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ladin

Noun

resident m (plural residenc)

1. resident

Latin

Verb

resident

1. third-person plural present active indicative of reside?

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin residentem, accusative singular of resid?ns, from the verb reside?.

Adjective

resident m (oblique and nominative feminine singular resident or residente)

1. resident; residing

References

• resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?d??(?)/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     a leger Evil

Etymology 2

A variant of ledger.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Noun

leger (plural legers)

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.

   • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”)

Verb

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”)

Anagrams

• regle

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.??r/
• Hyphenation: le?ger
• Rhymes: -e???r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leger, from Proto-West Germanic *legr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *legr?.

Noun

leger n (plural legers, diminutive legertje n)

1. army, armed forces

2. form (habitation of a hare)
3. (archaic) bed, crib
4. (figuratively) mass, multitude
5. Short for dijkleger.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: leër
• ? English: leaguer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

leger

1. Comparative form of leeg

Verb

leger

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

Anagrams

• geler, regel

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French léger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??????/, /le??e???/
• Hyphenation: le?ger

Adjective

leger (comparative legerer, superlative am legersten)

1. casual, informal
2. (of clothing) dressed down

Declension

Further reading

• “leger” in Duden online
• “leger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch legger (“ledger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???r/
• Hyphenation: lè?gêr

Noun

lègêr (first-person possessive legerku, second-person possessive legermu, third-person possessive legernya)

1. (education) a ledger, the marking register.

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??er/

Verb

leger

1. to read

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

l?ger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of l?g?

Middle English

Noun

leger

1. Alternative form of lygger

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leger m

1. indefinite plural of lege

Verb

leger

1. present of lege

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leger f

1. indefinite plural of lege

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-. Cognate with Old Frisian leger, Old Saxon legar, Dutch leger (“bed, camp, army”), Old High German legar (German Lager (“camp”)), Old Norse legr (Danish lejr, Swedish läger (“bed”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (ligrs). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (lékhos), Latin lectus (“bed”), Proto-Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian ??????? (ležát?)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le.jer/

Noun

le?er n

1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill

2. resting-place; couch, bed
3. deathbed, grave

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle English: leir, leire, lair, lare
  • English: lair
  • Scots: lair, lear, layer, lare

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin leg?, legere.

Verb

leger

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) to read

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• liger (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ler (Puter)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

leger m (feminine singular legra, masculine plural legers, feminine plural legras)

1. (Sursilvan) merry, happy

   Synonym: allegher

Alternative forms

• legher (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Swedish

Adjective

leger (comparative legerare, superlative legerast)

1. Alternative form of legär

Inflection

Anagrams

• regel