# lue
## English
### Alternative forms

* lew

### Etymology

Uncertain.

### Verb

lue (third-person singular simple present lues, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)
* (mining, dialect, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
** 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 116:Cardiganshire... That which is thus Buddled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water.
** 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 122:Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.

### References

* ↑ "lue | lew, v." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1903), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

### Anagrams

* -ule, Elu, LEU, leu, ule

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Danish lughæ, Old Norse logi, from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Compare German Lohe, Swedish låga, Old English līeġ, English low (“flame”).

#### Noun

lue c (singular definite luen, plural indefinite luer)
* flame

##### Synonyms

* (flame): flamme c

#### Verb

lue (imperative lu, infinitive at lue, present tense luer, past tense luede, perfect tense har luet)
* flame

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse lúfa. Cognate with Swedish luva and Norwegian Nynorsk luve.

#### Noun

lue c (singular definite luen, plural indefinite luer)
* tuque, (a knit cap)

##### Synonyms

* (knit cap): tophue c, strikkehue c

##### References

* “lue,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlueˣ/, [ˈlue̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ue
* Hyphenation: lue

### Interjection

lue
* read; used to indicate pronunciation
    Synonym: luetaan
    Yhdistettyä funktiota merkitään f∘g (lue "f pallo g").A function composition is denoyed f∘g (read, "f of g").
* (humorous) that is; used to indicate equivalence
    Synonyms: eli, siis
    Hän on poliitikko (lue valehtelija).He's a politician (that is, a liar).

### Verb

lue
* inflection of lukea:
** second-person singular imperative
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* leu

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ly/
* Audio:(file)

### Participle

lue f sg
* feminine singular of lu

### Anagrams

* élu, leu

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin luēs (“plague, pestilence”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlu.e/
* Rhymes: -ue
* Hyphenation: lù‧e

### Noun

lue f (invariable)
* (medicine) Synonym of sifilide (“syphilis”)
* (figurative, literary) plague, misfortune
* (poetic) an evil person
** 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto VII, page 25:La ſopraueﬅa di color di ſabbia Su l'arme hauea la maledetta lueThe damned villain had a sand-colored overgarment over his arms

## Latin
### Noun

lue
* ablative singular of luēs

### Verb

lue
* second-person singular present active imperative of luō

## Mandarin
### Romanization

lue
* Nonstandard spelling of lüè.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

lue f or m (definite singular lua or luen, indefinite plural luer, definite plural luene)
* beanie

### References

* “lue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.