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

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

• Czech: louka (cs) f
• Finnish: niitty (fi)
• Hebrew: אָחוּ‎ (he) m ('ɑħu)
• 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 [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/, [ˈɫe.a]

Noun

lea f (genitive leae); first declension

1. A lioness

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

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

   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