leger

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

  1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Etymology 2

A variant of ledger.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

  1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
    a leger ambassador

Noun

leger (plural legers)

  1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
    • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”)
    • 1822, Nicolas Pike, Chester Dewey, “Book Keeping”, in A New and Complete System of Arithmetick. Composed for the Use of Citizens of the United States, 4th edition, Troy, N.Y.: Printed and published by W[illia]m S. Parker, […], →OCLC, page 490:
      The Leger exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debt] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. […] Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the Leger. If a mistake be made, let it be corrected by an account in the Day Book, clearly stating the correction, and then let this account be posted in its proper place in the Leger, that no blot or erasure may disfigure its pages.
    • 1837 December 20, Thomas P. Cope, Speech of Thomas P. Cope of Philadelphia, on Banks and Currency. […], [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Printed at No. 46 Carpenter Street, published 1838, →OCLC, page 9:
      [T]his city of "merchants, whose counting-houses are their churches, whose money is their God, and whose legers, (defaced legers, of course, the delegate from Indiana will understand me,) whose legers are their bibles."
    • 1843, George Leonard, Jr., “Book-keeping. [Book-keeping by Single Entry. Lesson 229.]”, in A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic, […], 12th stereotyped edition, Boston, Mass.: Otis, Broaders, and Company;  […], →OCLC, page 311:
      The original charges, however, are made in what is called a day book, where they are written one after another, in the order in which the transactions occur. During the hours of leisure, these charges are copied into another book, […] the account of each man being placed under his name. This book is called the leger. The act of copying from the day book into the leger is called posting.

Verb

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, British, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”)
    • 1864, “Otter” [pseudonym; H. Jervis Alfred], “Eel, Lamprey and Lampern”, in The Modern Angler, Containing Instructions in the Art of Fly-fishing, Spining and Bottom-fishing, […], London: Alfred & Son, […], →OCLC, part I, page 68:
      Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when Legering for Barbel, […]
    • 1878, “The Fishing Season”, in Once a Week, volume VIII (Fourth Series), London: Published at the offices, 19, Tavistock Street, W.C., →OCLC, page 95, column 1:
      Messrs. E. Frost and Tomkins, at Monkey Island, in two days, caught 80 lbs. weight of chub, dace, and roach with the fly and cheese paste, and in legering a trout of 2¼ lbs.
    • 1997, Paul Gustafson, “Rigs”, in How to Catch Bigger Pike from Rivers, Lochs and Lakes, London: Collins Willow, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN; republished as How to Catch Big Pike: All the Insight and Technique You Need to Catch Bigger Pike, whatever the Location, London: Robinson, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2016, →ISBN, page 160:
      The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.
    • 1998, Martin James, “Flounder”, in Paul Morgan, editor, Saltwater Flyfishing: Britain and Northern Europe, Machynlleth, Powys: Coch-y-Bonddu Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 156:
      The flounder spends its life between the tideline and the 25 to 30 fathoms mark, but they are often caught several miles upstream in freshwater rivers by anglers legering worms or gentles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “leger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleː.ɣər/
  • audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: le‧ger
  • Rhymes: -eːɣər

Etymology 1

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Noun

leger n (plural legers, diminutive legertje n)

  1. army, armed forces
    Het leger moet leger! ― The army must become emptier!
  2. form (habitation of a hare)
  3. (archaic) bed, crib
  4. (figurative) mass, multitude
  5. Short for dijkleger.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: leër

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

leger

  1. (deprecated template usage) Comparative form of leeg

Verb

leger

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

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French léger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈʒɛːɐ̯/, /leˈʒeːɐ̯/
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: le‧ger

Adjective

leger (comparative legerer, superlative am legersten)

  1. casual, informal
  2. (of clothing) dressed down

Declension

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Further reading

  • “leger” in Duden online
  • “leger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch legger (“ledger”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛɡər/
  • Hyphenation: lè‧gêr

Noun

lègêr (first-person possessive legerku, second-person possessive legermu, third-person possessive legernya)

  1. (education) a ledger, the marking register.

Further reading

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Verb

leger

  1. to read

Conjugation

    Conjugation of leger
infinitive leger
participle present perfect
legente legite
active simple perfect
present lege ha legite
past legeva habeva legite
future legera habera legite
conditional legerea haberea legite
imperative lege
passive simple perfect
present es legite ha essite legite
past esseva legite habeva essite legite
future essera legite habera essite legite
conditional esserea legite haberea essite legite
imperative sia legite

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) lēger

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lēgō

Middle English

Noun

leger

  1. Alternative form of lygger

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leger m

  1. indefinite plural of lege

Verb

leger

  1. (deprecated template usage) present of lege

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leger f

  1. indefinite plural of lege

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian leger, Old Saxon legar, Dutch leger (“bed, camp, army”), Old High German legar (German Lager (“camp”)), Old Norse legr (Danish lejr, Swedish läger (“bed”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐍂𐍃 (ligrs). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos), Latin lectus (“bed”), Proto-Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ)).

Pronunciation

Noun

leġer n

  1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill
    on ðam sixtan dæge his legeres ― on the sixth day of his illness
  2. resting-place; couch, bed
  3. death-bed, grave
    on gehalgodan legere licgan ― to be buried in a consecrated grave

Declension

Declension of leger (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative leġer leġru
accusative leġer leġru
genitive leġres leġra
dative leġre leġrum

Descendants

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin legō, legere.

Verb

leger

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) to read
Conjugation
    Conjugation of leger (Sursilvan)
infinitive leger
gerund legend
past participle legiu
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative jeu ti el/ella nus vus els/ellas
present legel legas lega legein legeis legan
imperfect legavel legavas legava legavan legavas legavan
future vegnel a leger vegns a leger vegn a leger vegnin a leger vegnis a leger vegnan a leger
conditional jeu ti el/ella nus vus els/ellas
direct present legess legesses legess legessen legesses legessen
indirect present legessi legessies legessi legessien legessies legessien
direct future vegness a leger vegnesses a leger vegness a leger vegnessen a leger vegnesses a leger vegnessen a leger
indirect future vegnessi a leger vegnessies a leger vegnessi a leger vegnessien a leger vegnessies a leger vegnessien a leger
subjunctive che jeu che ti ch'el/ch'ella che nus che vus ch'els/ch'ellas
present legi legies legi legeien legeies legien
past legevi legevies legevi legevien legevies legevien
future vegni a leger vegnies a leger vegni a leger vegnîen a leger vegnîes a leger vegnien a leger
imperative — ti — — vus —
lega legei
    Conjugation of leger (Grischun)
infinitive leger
gerund legend
past participle legì, legida
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative jeu ti el/ella nus vus els/ellas
present legel legas lega legain legais legan
imperfect legeva legevas legeva legevan legevas legevan
future vegnel a leger vegns a leger vegn a leger vegnin a leger vegnis a leger vegnan a leger
conditional jeu ti el/ella nus vus els/ellas
present legess legesses legess legessen legesses legessen
future vegness a leger vegnesses a leger vegness a leger vegnessen a leger vegnesses a leger vegnessen a leger
subjunctive che jeu che ti ch'el/ch'ella che nus che vus ch'els/ch'ellas
present legia legias legia legian legias legian
future vegni a leger vegnies a leger vegni a leger vegnîen a leger vegnîes a leger vegnien a leger
imperative — ti — — vus —
lega legai
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

leger m (feminine singular legra, masculine plural legers, feminine plural legras)

  1. (Sursilvan) merry, happy
    Synonym: allegher
Alternative forms

Swedish

Adjective

leger (comparative legerare, superlative legerast)

  1. Alternative form of legär

Inflection

Inflection of leger
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular leger legerare legerast
Neuter singular legert legerare legerast
Plural legera legerare legerast
Masculine plural3 legere legerare legerast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 legere legerare legeraste
All legera legerare legeraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Anagrams

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