lecho

Inherited from Old Spanish lecho, llecho, from Latin lectus (or from the variant Latin lectum). Cognate with Galician and Portuguese leito, Catalan llit, Asturian llechu, and French lit.

lecho m (Hebrew spelling ליג׳ו)^[1]

1. (countable) bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)

   Synonym: kama

   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[1], volumes 26–28, page 71:

     Ya meldatesh por seguro en las gazetas ke el governo esta aparejando una ley grasias a la kuala no va aver mas estos terribles " bekchis " vinidos espesilamente de Anadol i los kualos kon sus espavoresientes sopas azian tanto espantar a todos akeyos ke tienen el koraje de durmir repozados en sus lechos.

     Now you certainly read in the papers that the government is preparing a law thanks to whoever is no longer having more [of] these terrible ‘guards’, especially from Anadol, coming with their frightening clubs, terrifying everybody who has the courage the sleep soundly in bed.

• llecho

Inherited from Latin lectus (or from the variant Latin lectum). Cognate with Old French lit & Old Galician-Portuguese leito.

lecho m (plural lechos)

1. (countable) bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)

   Synonym: cama

• Ladino: lecho, ליג׳ו
• Spanish: lecho

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “lecho”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 302

• IPA^(key): /ˈlet͡ʃo/ [ˈle.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -etʃo
• Syllabification: le‧cho

Inherited from Old Spanish lecho, llecho, from Latin lectus (or from the variant Latin lectum). Cognate with Galician and Portuguese leito, Catalan llit, Asturian llechu, and French lit.

lecho m (plural lechos)

1. (countable, higher register) bed

   Synonyms: (more common) cama, (Philippines) catre

2. bed (garden plot)
3. riverbed (path where a river runs)

   Synonyms: álveo, madre, cauce

4. (geology) stratum (layer of sedimentary rock)
5. litter (material used for animals)

lecho

1. first-person singular present indicative of lechar

• “lecho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024