lea

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
• Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).

• leigh, ley

lea (plural leas)

1. an open field, meadow
   • 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

     The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

     And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

   • XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance

     Two children in two neighbor villages

     Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;

Middle English [Term?], from Old French lier (“to bind”)

lea (plural leas)

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards

   Synonym: lay

2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

• E-la, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale

lea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ler

lea f (plural leas)

1. fight, quarrel

• liorta
• briga
• lida

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫe.a]

lea f (genitive leae); first declension

1. A lioness

• leaena

• leō m

• lea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lea in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯/

lea

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

lea

1. Past tense and past participle of lee

lea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of leer.

Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).

lea

1. language; speech

   lea fakatonga ― Tongan language

• IPA^(key): [lèːɐ]

  Rhymes: -èːðɐ

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -èːrɐ, -èːðɐ

From le (“joint, limb.”)

lea

1. wiggle

• leamån

lea

1. nominative & accusative masculine plural of le