leme
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English leem leme leam, as (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”) ; akin to light.
Noun
leme (plural lemes)
- (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
- (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Fire with red lemes.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Elyot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.
- (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Verb
leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “leme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
Obscure. Perhaps from Basque lema, ultimately from Latin temō. Alternatively, from a Germanic origin.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
leme m (plural s)
- (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
- Synonym: temón
- (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)
- Synonym: temón
- (figurative) good judgement
See also
leme on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “leme”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.
Noun
leme f
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: leem
Further reading
- “leme”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “leme (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English
Noun
leme (plural lemes)
- Alternative form of lyme
Portuguese
Etymology
Obscure.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈle.mi/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "South Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈle.me/
Noun
leme m (plural s)
- (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
- (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)
Derived terms
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Requests for date/Chaucer
- Requests for date/Thomas Elyot
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- Requests for quotations/Piers Plowman
- Galician terms with unknown etymologies
- Galician terms borrowed from Basque
- Galician terms derived from Basque
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms borrowed from Germanic languages
- Galician terms derived from Germanic languages
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Nautical
- gl:Aeronautics
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Dutch lemmas
- Middle Dutch nouns
- Middle Dutch feminine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Nautical
- pt:Aeronautics
- Portuguese terms with unknown etymologies