leme

See also: Leme, lemé, and lëmë

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)

1. (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.

Verb

leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• LEEM, mele

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Galician

Etymology

Obscure. Perhaps from Basque lema, ultimately from Latin temō. Alternatively, from a Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛme̝/

Noun

leme m (plural s)

1. (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)

   Synonym: temón

2. (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)

   Synonym: temón

3. (figurative) good judgement

   Synonyms: sentidiño, xuízo

See also

leme on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Template:R:DDLG
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• “leme” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

Noun

leme f

1. fishbone
2. (generally prickly) stalk or other part of a plant

Inflection

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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

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Middle English

Noun

leme (plural lemes)

1. Alternative form of lyme

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Portuguese

Etymology

Obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.mi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈle.me/

Noun

leme m (plural s)

1. (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
2. (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)

Derived terms

• leme de direção
• leme de profundidade
• leme horizontal
• leme vertical
• perder o leme