ligue

Inherited from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie”).

• IPA^(key): /liɡ/

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ligue f (plural ligues)

1. league

• coupe de la ligue
• ligue hanséatique

ligue

1. inflection of liguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ligue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

ligue

1. inflection of ligar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

ligue

1. inflection of ligar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɡe/ [ˈli.ɣ̞e]
• Rhymes: -iɡe
• Syllabification: li‧gue

Deverbal from ligar.

ligue m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) cruising (a concerted effort to find sex) or gay sex
2. (colloquial) fling, pickup, hookup (action and person)

ligue

1. inflection of ligar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “ligue”, 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