# leto
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.toː/, [ˈɫ̪eːt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.to/, [ˈlɛːt̪o]

### Verb

lētō (present infinitive lētāre, perfect active lētāvī, supine lētātum); first conjugation
* to kill, to slay
** 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 503:Quique Lycurgiden letavit, et arbore natum, / Idmonaque audacem, te quoque rumpat aper.And the boar who has killed the son of Lycurgus, and him who has been born from a tree, and the keen Idmon, shall tear you asunder too!

#### Conjugation
### Noun

lētō m
* dative/ablative singular of lētum

### References

* “leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "leto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* leto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “leto”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “leto”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “leto”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

lèto f
* (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lètu

### Verb

leto
* (obsolete) past plural of lata
* (obsolete) past plural of låta

### Anagrams

* loet, lote, tole, tòle

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French letton / lette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.tu/

### Adjective

leto (feminine leta, masculine plural letos, feminine plural letas, not comparable)
* Latvian (of, from, or pertaining to Latvia)

### Noun

leto m (plural letos, feminine leta, feminine plural letas)
* Latvian (person from Latvia)

### Noun

leto m (uncountable)
* Latvian (language)
    Synonyms: lético, letão, letonês, letoniano, (Brazil) letônio, (Portugal) letónio

### Further reading

* “leto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “leto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* ljȅto (Ijekavian)
* lito (Ikavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lêto/
* Hyphenation: le‧to

### Noun

lȅto n (Cyrillic spelling ле̏то)
* summer, summertime
* (archaic) year

#### Declension
### See also

Seasons in Serbo-Croatian · godišnja doba / годишња доба (layout · text) · category :
| spring: proleće, proljeće пролеће, прољеће | summer: leto, ljeto лето, љето | autumn: jesen јесен | winter: zima зима |

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʎetɔ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

leto n
* summer

#### Related terms

* letný
* letno

### See also

* seasons: ročné obdobia: jar · leto · jeseň · zima

### Further reading

* “leto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lèːtɔ/, SNPT: lẹ́to

### Noun

lẹ́to n
* year
* (rare) annual harvest
* (archaic) summer

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “leto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “leto”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Swazi
### Etymology

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### Pronoun

leto
* those; class 8 distal demonstrative.

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* łeto

### Etymology

From Latin lectus. Compare Italian letto.

### Noun

leto m (plural leti)
* bed