lege

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛdʒ/

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.
   • Bishop Fisher

     Not only he legeth his mercy to bind his reason, but also his wysdome.

   • Chaucer, Court of Love, v. 1065.

     To reson faste, and ledge auctoritie.

Clipping of legend.

lege (uncountable)

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

• Egle, glee

From Old Norse leika, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

• IPA^(key): /lajə/, [ˈlɑjə], [ˈlɑːɪ]

lege (imperative leg, infinitive at lege, present tense leger, past tense legede, perfect tense har leget)

1. play
2. spawn

In compounds: "lege-".

See leg.

• IPA^(key): /lajə/, [ˈlɑjə], [ˈlɑːɪ]

lege c

1. plural indefinite of leg

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• Rhymes: -eːɣə

lege

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of legen

• egel, geel, gele, leeg

lege

1. First-person singular present of legen.
2. Imperative singular of legen.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of legen.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of legen.

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/

lege

1. second-person singular present active imperative of legō

lēge

1. ablative singular of lēx

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

• leege, liege, lewke, leuge, leke

• 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.

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

• 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 who is in another's service.
3. (rare) One's feudal overlords or superiors.

• lege man
• ligeaunce

• English: liege
• Scots: liege

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

lege

1. Being able to command obedience from one's inferiors.
2. Tied by pledge to obey one's superiors; being subjected by an authority to duty.
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 Old English læce and Old Norse læknari

IPA^(key): /leːɡʲə/

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 (Bokmål)

(from both noun and verb)

• hudlege
• legemiddel
• tannlege
• øyelege

• “lege” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /leːɡə/

From Danish læge

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

1. doctor (physician)

• dokter, lækjar

• hudlege
• legemiddel (derived from the Bokmål verb lege)
• tannlege

From Old Norse lega.

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

lege

1. neuter past participle of liggja, liggje, ligga and 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/

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

• (belief): religie, credință

• legal
• legitim

lege

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