lege

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

lege (uncountable)

1. (US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature.

Abbreviated from allege (“to assert”).

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.

Clipping of legend.

• leg, ledge

lege (uncountable)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.

   Synonym: ledgebag

• nulla pœna sine lege

• Egle, glee

• IPA^(key): /lajə/, [ˈlɑːɪ]
• Homophone: leje

From Old Norse leika, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną (“to jump, play”), cognate with Norwegian leike, leke, Swedish leka, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (laikan).

lege (past tense legede, past participle leget)

1. to play
2. to spawn

In compounds: "lege-".

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lege c

1. indefinite plural of leg

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• Rhymes: -eːɣə

lege

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of legen

• egel, geel, gele, leeg

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lege

1. inflection of legen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

lege (plural leges)

1. law

lege

1. present of leger
2. imperative of leger

From Latin lex, legem.

lege m (plural leges)

1. law

• leal

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ɡe/, [ˈɫ̪ɛɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.d͡ʒe/, [ˈlɛːd͡ʒe]

lege

1. second-person singular present active imperative of legō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈleː.ɡe/, [ˈɫ̪eːɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.d͡ʒe/, [ˈlɛːd͡ʒe]

lēge

1. ablative singular of lēx

• legg, lesg (Milanese classical orthography)
• legge (Cremonese orthography)
• lez (Brescian classical orthography)

From Latin lex, legem (“law”).

• (Modern Western) IPA^(key): /ˈleːdʒ(e)/, [leːtʃ], [ˈleːdʒe]
• (Modern Eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈleːdʒe/, [ˈledʒe]
• (Classical Western) IPA^(key): /ˈleːz/, [leːʃ]
• (Classical Eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈleːz/, [les]

lege f (plural legi)

1. law
2. rule

Borrowed from Late Latin leuca, leuga, from Proto-Celtic *lougā.

• leege, leke, leuge, lewke, liege

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːɡ(ə)/, /ˈlɛu̯ɡ(ə)/, /ˈlɛːk(ə)/

lege (plural leges)

1. league (unit of meaurement)

• English: league

• “lēge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lige, liege; further etymology is disputed.

• leege, legge, legi, leyge, liage, liege, lyege, lyge

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːdʒ(ə)/, /ˈliːdʒ(ə)/

lege (plural leges or lege)

1. (One of) one's subjects or vassals; (one of) those under one's control.
2. A hireling or servant; one serving under another.
3. (rare) One's feudal overlords or superiors.

• lege man
• legiaunce

• English: liege
• Scots: liege

• “lēge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

lege

1. Able to command obedience from one's inferiors.
2. Pledged to obey one's superiors; subject to duty by an authority.
3. (rare) Otherwise bound by feudal obligations.

• English: liege

• “lẹ̄ǧe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

From Danish læge.

IPA^(key): /leː.ɡɛ/, [²leː.ɡə]

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

1. a doctor

• doktor

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

lækje (Nynorsk)

• “lege” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Danish læge through Norwegian Bokmål lege. Compare also lækjar, from lækja (“to heal”).

• IPA^(key): /leː.ɡə/

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural legar, definite plural legane)

1. Synonym of lækjar (“doctor, physician”)

From Old Norse lega.

• lega, lego, legu, logo, lugu (all superseded and/or dialectal)

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
3. any kind of resting place for livestock and it's shepherd (usually high in the mountains, especially in Setesdalsheiene)

lege

1. neuter singular of legen

lege

1. supine of liggje
2. supine of ligge

• “lege” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare German legen, Dutch leggen, English lay.

lege

1. to lay
2. to put, to place

• IPA^(key): /ˈled͡ʒe/

Inherited from Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx, from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

lege f (plural legi)

1. law
2. (archaic) religion, belief (in God or a divinity), credence

   Synonyms: religie, credință

• legal
• legitim

lege

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of lega