lea

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
• 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 *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”).

Alternative forms

• leigh, ley, lay

Noun

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;

Translations

open field, meadow

• Bulgarian: ливада (bg) f (livada)
• Czech: louka (cs) f
• Finnish: niitty (fi)
• Galician: campo (gl) m, campa (gl) f
• Hebrew: אָחוּ‎ (he) m ('ɑħu)
• Latin: prātum n

• Persian: راود‎ (fa) (râvad)
• Romanian: pășune (ro) f, pajiște (ro) f
• Russian: луг (ru) m (lug)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàn-talamh m
• Spanish: campo (es)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• E-la, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale

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Galician

Verb

lea

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

Noun

lea f (plural leas)

1. fight, quarrel

Synonyms

• liorta
• briga
• lida

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.a/

Noun

lea f (genitive leae); first declension

1. (poetic) a lioness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lea	leae
Genitive	leae	leārum
Dative	leae	leīs
Accusative	leam	leās
Ablative	leā	leīs
Vocative	lea	leae

Synonyms

• leaena

Related terms

• leō m

References

• 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

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯/

Verb

lea

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lea

1. simple past and past participle of lee

Alternative forms

• leet

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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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le.a/

Noun

lea

1. language; speech

   lea fakatonga ― Tongan language

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Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lèːɐ]

  Rhymes: -èːðɐ

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -èːrɐ, -èːðɐ

Etymology 1

From le (“joint, limb.”)

Verb

lea

1. wiggle

Derived terms

• leamån

Etymology 2

Noun

lea

1. nominative/accusative masculine plural of le