lea

See also: Lea, LEA, leâ, Léa, and le'a

English

Pronunciation

• /li:/, /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh

Etymology 1

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 *louk- ‎(“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”).

Alternative forms

• leigh, ley

Noun

lea ‎(plural leas)

1. an open field, meadow
   • XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance

     Two children in two neighbor villages

     Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;

Translations

open field, meadow

• Persian: راود (fa) ‎(râvad)
• Romanian: pășune (ro) f, pajiște (ro) f
• Russian: луг (ru) m ‎(lug)

• Scottish Gaelic: bàn-talamh m

Etymology 2

Middle English, from French lier, to bind

Noun

lea ‎(plural leas)

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Anagrams

• ale, ELA, LAE

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Galician

Verb

lea

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lea f ‎(genitive leae); first declension

1. A lioness

Synonyms

• leaena

Related terms

• leō m

References

• lea in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• lea in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Northern Sami

Verb

lea

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

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Norwegian

Verb

lea

1. Past tense and past participle of lee

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Spanish

Verb

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.

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Tongan

Etymology

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

Noun

lea

1. language; speech

   le fakatonga - Tongan language