# leste
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

leste
* inflection of lessen:
** singular past indicative
** (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛst/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: lestent, lestes
* Rhymes: -ɛst

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian lesto.

#### Adjective

leste (plural lestes)
* agile; nimble
** 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:Arshavin s’est repoussé sur le dossier de son siège, avec cet air soudain leste, plus mobile, qu’il avait quand il réfléchissait […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Derived terms

* avoir la main leste
* lestement

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

leste
* inflection of lester:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From French l’est, from Old English ēast.

#### Alternative forms

* E
* L

#### Noun

leste m (plural lestes)
* (uncountable) east (cardinal direction)
* (uncountable) the eastern portion of a territory or region
* (countable) an eastern; a wind blowing from the east

##### Synonyms

* (east): levante, nacente, oriente, raiante
* (eastern portion): oriente
* (eastern wind): levante

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “east”): occidente, oeste, poñente

##### Coordinate terms

* norte
* occidente
* sur

##### Derived terms

* norleste
* surleste
* Timor Leste

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

leste
* (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular preterite indicative of ler

## Hungarian
### Etymology

les +‎ -te

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛʃtɛ]
* Hyphenation: les‧te

### Verb

leste
* third-person singular indicative past definite of les

#### Usage notes

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:
* leste (…) el, el … leste ― elleste ― elles
* and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.ste/
* Rhymes: -ɛste
* Hyphenation: lè‧ste

### Adjective

leste
* feminine plural of lesto

### Anagrams

* stele

## Middle English
### Adjective

leste
* last; final
** 14th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale
    The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro So hidously þat with þe leste strook That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

## Norman
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Adjective

leste m or f
* (Jersey) nimble

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

leste
* simple past of lese

### Anagrams

* eltes, eslet, etles, -elset, letes, selet, selte, stele

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French l’est (“the east”), from le, l’ (“the”) + est (“east”), from Old English ēast (“east”), from Proto-West Germanic *austr. Distant cognate to austro, via Latin.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛs.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛs.t͡ʃi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈlɛʃ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛs.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛʃ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: les‧te

#### Noun

leste m (plural lestes)
* east (compass point)
    Synonyms: este, lés

##### Coordinate terms

compass points: pontos cardeais:
| noroeste | norte | nordeste |
| oeste poente ocidente | | leste este nascente oriente |
| sudoeste | sul | sudeste |

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈles.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈles.t͡ʃi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈleʃ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈles.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈleʃ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: les‧te

#### Verb

leste
* second-person singular preterite indicative of ler

##### Alternative forms

* lêste (obsolete)

### References

* ↑ “leste”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “leste”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025