lego

lego (countable and uncountable, plural legos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lego.

• loge, Ogle, Goel, gole, Oleg, goel, Loge, ogle

From English let go.

lego

1. (transitive) to let go of, release, drop
2. (transitive) to leave someone or something, abandon
3. (transitive) to leave a place

• leego, Lego, Leego

From Danish LEGO.

• IPA^(key): /ˈle(ː)ɡo/, [ˈle̞(ː)ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification^(key): le‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): le‧go

lego

1. Lego, lego, Lego brick (type of plastic toy brick)

• leego (“tooth”) (slang)

Borrowed from Esperanto leĝo, French loi, Italian legge, Spanish ley.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɡo/

lego (plural legi)

1. law

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Hyphenation: lé‧go

lego

1. first-person singular present indicative of legare

• gelo, gelò, gole

From Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti, from *leǵ-. Cognates include Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “I speak, I choose, I mean”) and Albanian mbledh. May be related to lēx.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.ɡo]

legō (present infinitive legere, perfect active lēgī, supine lēctum); third conjugation

1. to choose, select

   Synonyms: dēligō, ēligō, optō, adoptō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, dēstinō, sūmō, capiō, creō

2. to appoint

   Synonyms: dēlēgō, dēsignō, assignō, mandō, dēmandō, tribuō, īnstituō, impertiō, elēgō, appōnō, prōdō, cōnsociō, ōrdinō, distribuō, attribuō, discrībō, addīcō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     […] dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

     […] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war

4. to collect, gather, bring together, catch

   Synonyms: cōgō, contrahō, cōnferō, congerō, coniungō, concieō, cōnserō, convehō, cōnstruō, glomerō, concitō, colligō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.683-685:

     “[...] Date volnera lymphīs / abluam, et, extrēmus sī quis super hālitus errat, / ōre legam.” [...]

     “Grant that I may wash her wounds with water, and, if any last breath wanders over her, I will gather it with my lips.”

5. to take out, pick out, extract, remove
6. to take to one's self unjustly, carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract

   Synonyms: āmoveō, removeō, adimō, dēmō, eximō, tollō, auferō, āvertō, abdūcō, excipiō, extrahō, ēvehō

7. to read

   Librōs lege. ― Read books.

   Lēgistīne hunc librum? ― Have you read this book?

   Lingua Graeca est; nōn potest legī. ― It's Greek; it cannot be read.

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 7.77:

     Exigis, ut nostrōs dōnem tibi, Tucca, libellōs.
     Nōn faciam: nam vīs vēndere, nōn legere.

     You demand that I give our [⇒ my] little books to you, Tucca.
     I will not do [it]: for you want to sell [them], not to read [them].

8. (Medieval Latin) to teach, profess

   Synonyms: doceō, discō, īnstruō, ēducō, ērudiō, ēdoceō, magistrō, fingō

9. to be bound, fettered, detained

From lēx (“a formal motion for a law”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.ɡo]

lēgō (present infinitive lēgāre, perfect active lēgāvī, supine lēgātum); first conjugation

1. to dispatch, send as ambassador
2. to send on mission
3. to assign as a legatus
4. to delegate, entrust, assign, deputize

   Synonyms: dēlēgō, dēsignō, assignō, mandō, dēmandō, tribuō, impertiō, discrībō, elēgō, cōnsociō, ōrdinō, attribuō, appōnō, addīcō

5. to appoint by a last will or testament, leave or bequeath as a legacy

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• Catalan: llegar
• Italian: legare
• → Portuguese: legar
• Spanish: legar
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: lighêr

• “lego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lego in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• lego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to read Plato: Platonem legere, lectitare
    
  • to study Plato: Platonem legere et cognoscere
    
  • the reader: legentes, ii qui legunt
    
  • to leave money to a person in one's will: pecuniam alicui legare
    
  • a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
    
  • to elect to the senate: in senatum legere, eligere
    
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
    
  • to hug the coast: oram legere (Liv. 21. 51)
    
  • (ambiguous) this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
    
  • (ambiguous) the rules of speech, grammar: leges dicendi
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • (ambiguous) the constitution: instituta et leges
    
  • (ambiguous) to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a bill before the notice of the people: legem, rogationem promulgare (Liv. 33. 46)
    
  • (ambiguous) to propose a law in the popular assembly: legem ferre or simply ferre ad populum, ut...
    
  • (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): legem suadere (opp. dissuadere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to support a bill (before the people): pro lege dicere
    
  • (ambiguous) to formally propose a law to the people: legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to carry a law (said of the magistrate): legem perferre (Liv. 33. 46)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reject a bill: legem antiquare (opp. accipere, iubere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to vote for a law: legem sciscere (Planc. 14. 35)
    
  • (ambiguous) to ratify a law (used of the people): legem iubere
    
  • (ambiguous) to let a bill become law (of the people and senate): legem sancire
    
  • (ambiguous) Solo ordained by law that..: Solo lege sanxit, ut or ne
    
  • (ambiguous) to replace an old law by a new: legem abrogare (Att. 3. 23. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to abolish a law: legem tollere (Leg. 2. 12. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to protest against a law (used of the veto, intercessio, of plebeian tribunes): legi intercedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a law before the notice of the people: legem proponere in publicum
    
  • (ambiguous) to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
    
  • (ambiguous) to declare a law valid: legem ratam esse iubere
    
  • (ambiguous) to transgress a law: a lege discedere
    
  • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est
    
  • (ambiguous) the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
    
  • (ambiguous) to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
    
  • (ambiguous) a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)
    
  • (ambiguous) to swear obedience to a law: in legem iurare (Sest. 16. 37)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bound by a law: lege teneri
    
  • (ambiguous) on condition of..: ea lege, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • (ambiguous) to upset the whole constitution: omnes leges confundere
    
  • (ambiguous) lawlessness; anarchy: leges nullae
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to law with a person: (ex) iure, lege agere cum aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be condemned under the Lex Plautia: lege Plautia damnari (Sall. Cat. 31. 4)
    

lego m (definite singular legoen, uncountable)

1. alternative letter-case form of LEGO

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lègo f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lègu

Inherited from Latin lāicus, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʎe.ɡo(u)/

lego m

1. layman
   • c. 1265, Fuero de Salamanca:

     Nengun lego que deſafiar clerigo, peche .ccc. ſoldoſ e afielo; la tercia parte al quereloſo e la tercia al biſpo e la tercia alos alcaldes.

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• Asturian: llegu

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
• Syllabification: le‧go

lego

1. vocative singular of lega

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: le‧go

Borrowed from Danish Lego.

• Lego

lego m (plural legos)

1. Lego (small, coloured plastic toy bricks made by the Lego Company)
2. (trademark generalisation) any similar brick toy
3. (figurative) things that can be assembled together to form a larger thing

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lego

1. first-person singular present indicative of legar

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɡo/ [ˈle.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: le‧go

Inherited from Old Spanish lego, from Latin lāicus, borrowed from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laico.

lego (feminine lega, masculine plural legos, feminine plural legas)

1. ignorant, lay

lego m (plural legos, feminine lega, feminine plural legas)

1. layman

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lego

1. first-person singular present indicative of legar

• “lego”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː.ɡu/

lego n

1. Lego

   bygga (med) lego

   build/play with lego

   leka med lego

   play with lego

2. In compound words; an ablaut of lega (“hired; contracted”).

   ett legoavtal

   an outsourcing contract

   en legosoldat

   a mercenary

   (literally, “a hired soldier”)

• legobit (“lego, piece of lego”)
• legokloss (“lego, lego brick”)

• geol., loge