# longe
## English
### Alternative forms

* lunge (UK)

### Etymology 1

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lʌnd͡ʒ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnd͡ʒ
* Homophone: lunge

#### Verb

longe (third-person singular simple present longes, present participle longeing, simple past and past participle longed)
* (US, transitive) To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

##### Translations
#### Noun

longe (plural longes)
* A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
* (obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
** 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 59, in The Adventures of Roderick Random‎, volume 2, London: J. Osborn, page 252:[…] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […]
* (military) The training ground for a horse.
** 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow’s Military Encyclopedia‎, volume 2, New York, page 230:LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* longæ, longas

#### Noun

longe
* plural of longa

### References

* “longe”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Anagrams

* Leong, elong, on leg

## Afrikaans
### Noun

longe
* plural of long

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlonɡe/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: lon‧ge
* Rhymes: -onɡe

### Adverb

longe
* lengthily

#### Derived terms

* antaŭlonge (“long ago”)
* mallonge (“briefly”)

## Franco-Provençal
### Adjective

longe
* feminine singular of long

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔ̃ʒ/
* Audio (Belgium):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

longe
* inflection of longer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Adjective

longe (comparative plus longe, superlative le plus longe)
* long

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From longus (“far, long”) + -ē. Compare English long and Icelandic langt and lengi.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlon.ɡeː/, [ˈɫ̪ɔŋɡeː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlon.d͡ʒe/, [ˈlɔn̠ʲd͡ʒe]

#### Adverb

longē (comparative longius, superlative longissimē)
* (of space) long, a long way off, far, afar, far away, far off, at a distance
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.31:arcēbat longē Latiō[Juno] was keeping [the Trojans] far away from Latium
    Longe absum.
       I’m far away.
    Longe absum ab eius criminibus.
       I’m far away from his crimes.
* (of time) long, for a long period of time
    Neque longe progressus ― not much time has passed (Charles François Lhomond, De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae, Lucius Cornelius Sulla)
* widely, greatly, much, very much
    Docet longe alia ratione esse bellum gerendum atque antea gestum sit ― He teaches that they must fight by a very different method from that which had been previously adopted (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 14)

##### Synonyms

* (far): longiter

##### Derived terms

* longē sum

##### Related terms

* longaevitās
* longaevus
* longanimis
* longanimitās
* longanimiter
* longiloquium
* longinquē
* longinquitās
* longinquō
* longinquus
* longipēs
* longiscō
* longiter
* longitia
* longitūdō
* longiturnitās
* longiturnus
* longiusculē
* longiusculus
* longivīvāx
* longulē
* longulus
* longuriō
* longurius
* longus

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: lungi
* Gallo-Italic:
** Ligurian: lónxi
** Piedmontese: leugn
** (From dē+ab+longē):
*** Lombard: dalunsc
*** Piedmontese: daluncc
*** Romagnol: dalong
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: lyuen, luen
** Old French: loing
*** French: loin
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: lluny, llunt, llun
** Old Occitan:
*** Gascon: loi, lonh, lunh
*** Languedocien: lenc, lens, lhenc, lhòns, lhuènh
*** Occitan: luènh, luònh
*** Provençal: luench
*** Vivaro-Alpine: lhuènh
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: luen, lueñes
** Asturian: lloñe, llonxe, alluendi
** Old Galician-Portuguese: longe
*** Fala: londxi, longi
*** Galician: lonxe
*** Portuguese: longe
*** → Ladino: londje (Salonik), londji (Monastir, Sarajevo)
** Old Spanish: lueñe
*** Spanish: lueñe

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

longe
* vocative masculine singular of longus

### References

* “longe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “longe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* longe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe (ambiguous) far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere) (ambiguous) the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio (ambiguous) this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus (ambiguous) to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3) (ambiguous) Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2) (ambiguous) to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re) (ambiguous) to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)

## Middle English
### Adjective

longe
* inflection of long:
** weak singular
** strong/weak plural
* (Late Middle English) Alternative form of long

## Neapolitan
### Adjective

longe
* feminine plural of luongo

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

Derived from French long (“long”).

#### Noun

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)
* a rein for horses

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse lǫngu, oblique singular case of langa, whence the form lange.

#### Noun

longe f or m (definite singular longa or longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)
* common ling, Molva molva

### References

* “longe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* gloen, logen, logne, -logen

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

Derived from French long (“long”).

#### Noun

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longar, definite plural longane)
* a rein for horses

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse lǫngu, neuter dative singular of langr (“long”).

#### Alternative forms

* longo (obsolete form)

#### Adverb

longe
* a long time ago
* already

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse lǫngu, oblique singular case of langa (“ling”).

#### Noun

longe f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of lange

### Anagrams

* logne, ongle

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlon.ɡe/, [ˈloŋ.ɡe]

### Adverb

longe
* Alternative spelling of lange

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese longe, from Latin longe.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlõ.ʒi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlõ.ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈlõ.ʒe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlõ.ʒɨ/
* Hyphenation: lon‧ge

### Adverb

longe (comparable, comparative mais longe, superlative o mais longe)
* far, a long way
    Antonym: perto

### Adjective

longe m or f (plural longes)
* distant, faraway

### Further reading

* “longe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025