lez

• les

First syllable of lesbian.

• Rhymes: -ɛz

lez (plural lezzes)

1. (slang, sometimes vulgar) Lesbian.

• zel

• leze, lezë
• lemzë

From fuller and dialectal lemzë, diminutive in -zë ~ ëz of dialectal lem (“birth; rise”), deverbative of lej (“to give birth”); the original meaning would have been ‘birthmark’.[1]

lez m (indefinite plural lezë, definite singular lezi, definite plural lezët)

1. facial mole
2. (medicine) wart
3. (medicine) tumor
4. (dialectal) mark, spot, pimple, birthmark

• (wart, mole): lyth, yll
• (tumor): iriq

• IPA^(key): /lɛs/
• Homophone: les
• Rhymes: -ɛs

lez

1. second-person singular imperative of lézt

• lès

From Old French lez, from Late Latin latus (“next to, beside”), from Latin lātus (“side”).

• IPA^(key): /le/

lez

1. (obsolete) next to, near (still used in some place names)
   • Saint-André-lez-Lille est une ville proche de Lille.

     Saint-André-lez-Lille is a town near Lille.

• “lez” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• les, lés

From Latin lātus.

lez m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lez)

1. side

• costé

• delez