leme

From Old English leem leme leam, as Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”) ; akin to light.

leme (plural lemes)

1. (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
   • Chaucer

     Fire with red lemes.

   • Thomas Elyot

     Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.

leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

• LEEM, mele

Obscure. Perhaps from Basque lema, ultimately from Latin temō. Alternatively, from a Germanic origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛme̝/

leme m (plural lemes)

1. (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)

   Synonym: temón

2. (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)

   Synonym: temón

3. (figuratively) good judgement

   Synonyms: sentidiño, xuízo

leme on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

• “leme” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “leme” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “leme” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Dutch *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

leme f

1. fishbone
2. (generally prickly) stalk or other part of a plant

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: leem

• “leme”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “leme (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

leme (plural lemes)

1. Alternative form of lyme

Obscure.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈle.mi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈle.me/

leme m (plural lemes)

1. (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
2. (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)