# lego
## English
### Noun

lego (countable and uncountable, plural legos)
* Alternative letter-case form of Lego

### Anagrams

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

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English let go.

### Verb

lego
* (transitive) to let go of, release, drop
* (transitive) to leave someone or something, abandon
* (transitive) to leave a place

## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* leego, Lego, Leego

### Etymology

From Danish LEGO.

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

lego
* Lego, lego, Lego brick (type of plastic toy brick)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of lego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
legoni
legoni
accusative
nom.
legoni
legoni
gen.
legoni
genitive
legoni
legojeni
partitive
legoani
legojani
inessive
legossani
legoissani
elative
legostani
legoistani
illative
legooni
legoihini
adessive
legollani
legoillani
ablative
legoltani
legoiltani
allative
legolleni
legoilleni
essive
legonani
legoinani
translative
legokseni
legoikseni
abessive
legottani
legoittani
instructive
comitative
—legoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
legosi
legosi
accusative
nom.
legosi
legosi
gen.
legosi
genitive
legosi
legojesi
partitive
legoasi
legojasi
inessive
legossasi
legoissasi
elative
legostasi
legoistasi
illative
legoosi
legoihisi
adessive
legollasi
legoillasi
ablative
legoltasi
legoiltasi
allative
legollesi
legoillesi
essive
legonasi
legoinasi
translative
legoksesi
legoiksesi
abessive
legottasi
legoittasi
instructive
comitative
—legoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
legomme
legomme
accusative
nom.
legomme
legomme
gen.
legomme
genitive
legomme
legojemme
partitive
legoamme
legojamme
inessive
legossamme
legoissamme
elative
legostamme
legoistamme
illative
legoomme
legoihimme
adessive
legollamme
legoillamme
ablative
legoltamme
legoiltamme
allative
legollemme
legoillemme
essive
legonamme
legoinamme
translative
legoksemme
legoiksemme
abessive
legottamme
legoittamme
instructive
comitative
—legoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
legonne
legonne
accusative
nom.
legonne
legonne
gen.
legonne
genitive
legonne
legojenne
partitive
legoanne
legojanne
inessive
legossanne
legoissanne
elative
legostanne
legoistanne
illative
legoonne
legoihinne
adessive
legollanne
legoillanne
ablative
legoltanne
legoiltanne
allative
legollenne
legoillenne
essive
legonanne
legoinanne
translative
legoksenne
legoiksenne
abessive
legottanne
legoittanne
instructive
comitative
—legoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
legonsa
legonsa
accusative
nom.
legonsa
legonsa
gen.
legonsa
genitive
legonsa
legojensa
partitive
legoaan legoansa
legojaan legojansa
inessive
legossaan legossansa
legoissaan legoissansa
elative
legostaan legostansa
legoistaan legoistansa
illative
legoonsa
legoihinsa
adessive
legollaan legollansa
legoillaan legoillansa
ablative
legoltaan legoltansa
legoiltaan legoiltansa
allative
legolleen legollensa
legoilleen legoillensa
essive
legonaan legonansa
legoinaan legoinansa
translative
legokseen legoksensa
legoikseen legoiksensa
abessive
legottaan legottansa
legoittaan legoittansa
instructive
comitative
—legoineen legoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* leego (“tooth”) (slang)

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleɡo/

### Noun

lego (plural legi)
* law

#### Derived terms

* legala
* legifar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -eɡo
* Hyphenation: lé‧go

### Verb

lego
* first-person singular present indicative of legare

### Anagrams

* gelo, gelò, gole

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈle.ɡoː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.ɡo/, [ˈlɛːɡo]

#### Verb

legō (present infinitive legere, perfect active lēgī, supine lēctum); third conjugation
* to choose, select
    Synonyms: dēligō, ēligō, optō, adoptō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, dēstinō, sūmō, capiō, creō
* 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
* 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.”
* to take out, pick out, extract, remove
* 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
* 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].
* (Medieval Latin) to teach, profess
    Synonyms: doceō, discō, īnstruō, ēducō, ērudiō, ēdoceō, magistrō, fingō
* to be bound, fettered, detained

##### Derived terms

* allegō
* colligō
* dēligō
* dīligō
* ēligō
* intellegō
* lēctiō
* lēctitō
* lēctor
* lēctrīx
* legiō
* legulus
* legūmen
* lignum
* neglegō
* perlegō
* praelegō
* relegō
* sēligō
* spīcilegium
* sublegō

##### Descendants

* Balkan Romance
** Aromanian: aleg
* Dalmatian:
** laro
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: leghja
** Italian: leggere
*** → Neapolitan: leggere
*** → Sicilian: lèggiri
** Neapolitan: lejere (obsolete or N. Calabrian)
** Sicilian: lèjiri (obsolete or S. Calabrian)
*** Sicilian: lègghiri (affricated, Hyblaean)
* Padanian:
** Friulian: lei
** Istriot: lezi
** Ligurian: lêze
** Lombard: lèzer, les, lecc, léger
** Piedmontese: lese
** Romansch: leger, liger, ler
** Venetan: lèzar, lèzer, lèxer
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: llegir
** Franco-Provençal: liére, leire
** French: lire
** Norman: liéthe (Jersey)
** Occitan: legir
    Gascon: léger, leguir
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: leyer, lier, leir, liyer, leyir
** Old Leonese: leer
*** Asturian: lleer, llier
*** Leonese: lliere, lleere
** Old Galician-Portuguese: leer
*** Galician: ler
*** Portuguese: ler
** Spanish: leer
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: lègere, lèghere, lèzere, leghere, lezere
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: lexoj
** → Esperanto: legi
** → German: lesen
** → Old Irish: légaid
*** Irish: léigh
*** Manx: lhaih
*** Scottish Gaelic: leugh
** → Welsh: lleu, darllen
** → Yiddish: לייענען (leyenen)
*** → Dutch: lajenen
*** → English: leyn
*** → Hungarian: lejnol

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.ɡoː/, [ˈɫ̪eːɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.ɡo/, [ˈlɛːɡo]

#### Verb

lēgō (present infinitive lēgāre, perfect active lēgāvī, supine lēgātum); first conjugation
* to dispatch, send as ambassador
* to send on mission
* to assign as a legatus
* to delegate, entrust, assign, deputize
    Synonyms: dēlēgō, dēsignō, assignō, mandō, dēmandō, tribuō, impertiō, discrībō, elēgō, cōnsociō, ōrdinō, attribuō, appōnō, addīcō
* to appoint by a last will or testament, leave or bequeath as a legacy

##### Conjugation

$^1$At 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").

##### Derived terms

* ablēgō
* allēgō
* collēga
* dēlēgō
* praelēgō
* relēgō

##### Related terms

* lēgālis
* lēgāliter
* lēgātīcius
* lēgātiō
* lēgātīvus
* lēgātor
* lēgātōrius
* lēgātus
* lēgifer
* lēgirupa
* lēgirupiō
* lēgisdoctor
* lēgislātiō
* lēgislātor
* lēgisperītus
* lēgitimē
* lēgitimus
* lēgumlātor
* lēx

##### Descendants

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

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “legal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* “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, 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)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

lego m (definite singular legoen, uncountable)
* Alternative letter-case form of LEGO

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lègo f
* (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lègu

## Old Leonese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʎe.ɡo(u)/

### Noun

lego m
* 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* Asturian: llegu

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.ɡɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
* Syllabification: le‧go

### Noun

lego
* vocative singular of lega

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.ɡu/ [ˈlɛ.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡu
* Hyphenation: le‧go

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish Lego.

#### Alternative forms

* Lego

#### Noun

lego m (plural legos)
* Lego (small, coloured plastic toy bricks made by the Lego Company)
* (trademark generalisation) any similar brick toy
* (figurative) things that can be assembled together to form a larger thing

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lego
* first-person singular present indicative of legar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleɡo/ [ˈle.ɣ̞o]
* Rhymes: -eɡo
* Syllabification: le‧go

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

lego (feminine lega, masculine plural legos, feminine plural legas)
* ignorant, lay

#### Noun

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lego
* first-person singular present indicative of legar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleː.ɡu/

### Noun

lego n
* Lego
    bygga (med) legobuild/play with lego
    leka med legoplay with lego
* In compound words; an ablaut of lega (“hired; contracted”).
    ett legoavtalan outsourcing contract
    en legosoldata mercenary(literally, “a hired soldier”)

#### Derived terms

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

### Anagrams

* geol., loge