different between leu vs meu

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
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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).

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?um (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.

Alternative forms

• (rare) mew

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mju/

Noun

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon m??wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

Noun

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

References

Anagrams

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a meu
• (a) njeu

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

Related terms

• miui
• nju

See also

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mew/

Pronoun

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• Also used after some prepositions:

Declension

See also

• mon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?w/

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)

Further reading

• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician and Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mew/, /?m?w/

Pronoun

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) my

2. (possessive) mine

Interjection

meu

1. man; dude

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (môlos), ????? (mólos), itself from Latin m?l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø?/

Noun

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

   Synonym: mon

Descendants

• Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

meu

1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mew/
• Hyphenation: meu

Pronoun

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   4. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   6. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   8. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   10. Related to me; my.

       Meu pai veio me visitar.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Interjection

meu!

2. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• me? (old orthography)

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Determiner

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

Declension

Pronoun

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

• lor
• nostru
• s?u, lui
• t?u
• vostru

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu/

Pronoun

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

Related terms

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zou

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese ? (m?o).

Noun

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65