lees

See also: leés and -lees

English

Etymology 1

Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

Noun

1. The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

     Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:

     Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.

Synonyms

• (sediment): dregs

Related terms

• lie

Translations

Translations

• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Catalan: pòsit m
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sakka (fi)
• French: lie (fr) f, lie (fr) f
• Galician: borra (gl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύξ f sg (trúx)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: dreggjar m pl, botnfall (is) n
• Irish: moirt f, dríodar m, amhaisc f (literary)
• Italian: feccia (it) f
• Latin: floces f pl
• Russian: оса́док (ru) m (osádok)
• Spanish: heces (es) f pl, hez (es) f (rare)

Etymology 2

Noun

lees

1. plural of lee

Anagrams

• EELS, ELEs, Slee, eels, else, lese, seel, sele

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lezen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪəs/

Verb

lees (present lees, present participle lesende, past participle gelees)

1. to read

Related terms

• leser

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːs

Verb

lees

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of lezen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of lezen

Anagrams

• slee

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Luxembourgish

Verb

lees

1. second-person singular present indicative of leeën

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North Frisian

Etymology

In sense 1 from Old Frisian lesa.

Verb

lees

1. (Föhr-Amrum Dialect) to read
2. (Föhr-Amrum Dialect) to load

Conjugation

Conjugation of lees

infinitive I	lees
infinitive II	tu leesen
past participle	leesen
imperative singular	lees
imperative plural	lees'em
	present	past
1st-person singular	ik lees	ik lus
2nd-person singular	dü leest	dü lust
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at leest	hi/hat/at lus
1st-person dual	wat lees	wat lus
2nd-person dual	jat lees	jat lus
1st-person plural	wi lees	wi lus
2nd-person plural	jam lees	jam lus
3rd-person plural	jo lees	jo lus
	perfect	pluperfect
1st-person singular	ik haa leesen	ik hed leesen
2nd-person singular	dü heest leesen	dü hedst leesen
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at hee leesen	hi/hat/at hed leesen
1st-person dual	wat haa leesen	wat hed leesen
2nd-person dual	jat haa leesen	jat hed leesen
1st-person plural	wi haa leesen	wi hed leesen
2nd-person plural	jam haa leesen	jam hed leesen
3rd-person plural	jo haa leesen	jo hed leesen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st-person singular	ik skal lees	ik wal lees
2nd-person singular	dü skääl lees	dü wääl lees
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at skal lees	hi/hat/at wal lees
1st-person dual	wat skel lees	wat wel lees
2nd-person dual	jat skel lees	jat wel lees
1st-person plural	wi skel lees	wi wel lees
2nd-person plural	jam skel lees	jam wel lees
3rd-person plural	jo skel lees	jo wel lees

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Spanish

Verb

lees

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of leer.