lenda

lenda

1. inflection of lendama:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

From Old Norse lenda, derived from the noun land.

lenda (third person singular past indicative lendi, third person plural past indicative lent, supine lent)

1. (nautical) to land
2. (aviation) to land

• koma til lands, leggja at (landi)
• koma niður á flogvøllin, seta seg (á flogvøllin)

From Old Galician-Portuguese leenda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints, originally things to be read”), neuter plural of the future past participle of legō (“I read”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlendɐ]

lenda f (plural lendas)

1. legend (story describing extraordinary events)
   • 2006, Xosé Manuel González Reboredo, Lendas galegas de tradición oral, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 27:

     En Galicia contamos cun importante testemuño literario deste asunto na lenda da traslación dos restos do apóstolo Santiago, recollida no libro III do Codex Calixtinus, redactado no século XII.

     In Galicia we have an important literary account on this matter: the legend of the translation of the remains of the apostle Saint James, collected in the third book of the Codex Calixtinus, written during the 12th century.

   Synonyms: conto, mito, fábula

2. legend (person of extraordinary accomplishment)

   Synonym: mito

3. legend (an inscription, motto, or title)

   Synonym: inscrición

4. (archaic) writing system, script
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Glosario. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 652:

     Et fezomj Deus tãta merçee et deumj tal engeno et tã sotil que aprendj aliamja et toda a leenda dos mouros

     And God made so much grace and gave me such an inteligence and [made me] so cunning that I learned aljamiado and all the script of the Moors

• lenda urbana

• lendario

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “leenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “leenda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lenda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lenda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Norse lenda, derived from the noun land.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛnta/

  Rhymes: -ɛnta

lenda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lenti, supine lent)

1. to land

lenda n

1. definite plural of lende

lenda

1. to finish

From Old Galician-Portuguese leenda, from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints, originally things to be read”), neuter plural of the future past participle of Latin legō (“to read”). Doublet of legenda.

• Rhymes: -ẽdɐ
• Hyphenation: len‧da

lenda f (plural lendas)

1. legend
   1. story describing extraordinary events

      Synonyms: conto, mito, fábula

   2. person of extraordinary accomplishment

      Synonyms: fenómeno, mito

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lenda.

• lenda urbana