different between lea vs leu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/, /le?/
• Rhymes: -i?, -e?
• Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh

Etymology 1

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English l?ah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).

Akin to Old Frisian l?ch (“meadow”), Old Saxon l?h (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German l?h (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse l? (“clearing, meadow”).

Alternative forms

• leigh, ley, lay

Noun

lea (plural leas)

1. An open field, meadow.
   • 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

     The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

     And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

   • XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance

     Two children in two neighbor villages

     Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;

Derived terms

• Lea Green
• Lea Hall
• Lea Marston

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).

Noun

lea (plural leas)

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards.

   Synonym: lay

2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Anagrams

• E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale

Galician

Verb

lea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ler

Noun

lea f (plural leas)

1. fight, quarrel

Synonyms

• liorta
• briga
• lida

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.a/, [???eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.a/, [?l???]

Noun

lea f (genitive leae); first declension

1. (poetic) a lioness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• leaena

Related terms

• le? m

References

• lea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lea in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lea?/

Verb

lea

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lea

1. simple past and past participle of lee

Alternative forms

• leet

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.

Alternative forms

• lee (with e infinitive)
• leda, lede

Verb

lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, move

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lea n

1. definite plural of le

References

• “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ale, ela

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?a]

Verb

lea

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of la
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of la

Spanish

Verb

lea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of leer.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-lea (infinitive kulea)

1. to raise a child, to rear
2. to care for something (attend to the needs of)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -lelewa (“to be raised”)

Tongan

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le.a/

Noun

lea

1. language; speech

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lè??]

  Rhymes: -è?ð?

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -è?r?, -è?ð?

Etymology 1

From le (“joint, limb.”)

Verb

lea

1. wiggle

Derived terms

• leamån

Etymology 2

Noun

lea

1. nominative/accusative masculine plural of le

Yola

Verb

lea

1. Alternative form of laave

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“lion”), from Latin le? (“lion”). Doublet of Leo, lev, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.u?/

Noun

leu (plural lei)

1. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
2. The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ule, Elu, Lue, lue, ule

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• lei

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. (Morvan) place

Catalan

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency of Romania)
2. leu (currency of Moldova)

Further reading

• “leu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “leu” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “leu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Finnish

Noun

leu

1. leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)

Declension

Synonyms

• lei

Anagrams

• lue

French

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”). Doublet of lion.

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Further reading

• “leu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• élu, lue

Galician

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Verb

leu

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) preterite indicative of ler

Middle French

Verb

leu

1. past participle of lire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin lupus.

Alternative forms

• lou, lu

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. wolf (animal)

Descendants

• French: loup
• French: à la queue leu leu

Etymology 2

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit

Derived terms

• Middle French: lieu
  • French: lieu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?eu?/

Pronoun

leu

1. third-person plural accusative of la
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^b20

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lejos and French loin .

Adjective

leu

1. far

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lew/

Etymology 1

Verb

leu

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) preterite indicative of ler

Etymology 2

From Romanian leu (“leu; lion”).

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• ??? (post-1930s (Moldovan) Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology

Probably a later learned borrowing from Latin le? (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek ???? (lé?n). If inherited from the nominative form, the expected result in Romanian would have been *ieu (as iepure from leporem); furthermore, all the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form le?nem or genitive le?nis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also l?un and L?une(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie.

For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the Dutch leeuwendaalder (“lion thaler/dollar”), which depicted a lion; cf. daalder, also German löwenthaler. This traces back to the 17th century, when the Dutch currency was used in the Romanian principalities. Another explanation gives the origin of this sense as a calque of Turkish arslan (“lion”), which was also used to refer to a type of currency with a lion on it; see also piastru (English piastre). Compare also the sense of currency with Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lew/

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. lion
2. leu (the Romanian unit of currency)

Declension

Quotations

Derived terms

• leoaic?
• leoaie

References

Slovak

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/
• Homophone: lev

Noun

leu m (nominative plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Usage notes

This noun can also be undeclined.

Further reading

• leu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Walloon

Alternative forms

• leû

Etymology

From Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. wolf

References

• “Leu” in Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français (1852).
• “Leu” in Joseph Hubert, Dictionnaire wallon-liégeois et français (1853).