ley
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See lea.
Noun
ley (plural leys)
- Alternative spelling of lea
- A ley line.
- 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic
- For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
- 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic
Adjective
ley (not comparable)
- (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
- (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
Etymology 2
Noun
ley
Etymology 3
Noun
ley
- (obsolete) Law.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Abbott to this entry?)
Anagrams
Interlingue
Noun
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Synonyms
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English lēah, lēaġe (“a clearing in the woods”).
Noun
ley (plural leys)
Descendants
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.
Noun
ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)
Descendants
Portuguese
Noun
ley f (plural s)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin lēgem, singular accusative of lēx (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ley f (plural leyes)
- law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
- law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
- law (particular piece of legislation)
- religion, credence, worship of a god
Hyponyms
- ley natural (“natural law”)
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