la

la

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Latin.

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

From Latin labii, from the first word of the sixth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

• lah

la (plural las)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.

• (music): do, re, mi, fa, sol, ti

Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English lā (a common exclamation), Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).

la

1. Represents the sound of music or singing.

   "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.

   • 2019, Keira Brown, Between the Lines: Never in Plain Sight:

     The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.

From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.

• law

la

1. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
2. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     “Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.

From French la, Italian la.

la (not comparable)

1. Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
   • 2007 November 22, Kate Carter, The Guardian:

     Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 232:

     By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.

Possibly a shortened form of lad.

la (plural las)

1. (Liverpool) lad, kid

• lid (rhyming slang for kid)

From Cantonese 啦 (laa¹). Doublet of lah.

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /lɑː˥/

la (Hong Kong, colloquial)

1. Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.

   Sleep la! ― [You should] go to bed.

   Eat shit la you! ― You're going to hell! (calque of 食屎啦你！)

2. Used to tone down comments.

   ok la ― not bad; good enough

• lor, wor

la

1. (Singlish, Manglish) Alternative form of lah

• & al., -al, AL, Al, a.l., al, al-

• IPA^(key): [lɑː]

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la (plural [please provide])

1. (music) la (solfège)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /ɭa/

la

1. fish

la

1. (Mpakwithi) black snake

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

From Latin illa (“that one”).

la

1. her (direct object)

From Latin illac. Compare Romanian la.

la

1. at
2. by

From Latin illa(m).

la f sg (masculine el, neuter lo, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

• The article la contracts to l' before a word beginning with a or ha: l'asturiana (the Asturian), l'habitación (the habitation), because it ends with an A already

la

1. her (third-person singular feminine direct pronoun)

• na

la

1. postposition marking location

Inherited from Old Catalan la, from Latin illa (demonstrative) via apheresis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [la]

la f (masculine el, masculine plural els, feminine plural les)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

• The article la is contracted to l' before a vowel or h, except before a following unstressed I or U sounds, as in la universitat, la idea, and la oliva. Note: Unstressed O sounds like a U.

la (enclitic and proclitic, contracted proclitic l')

1. her (direct object)

• -la is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs.

  Mira-la. ― Look at her.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈla]

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of a diatonic scale)

• “la” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “la”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “la” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “la” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

la

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle. Cognates include Italian la and French la.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla/
• Homophone: là

la

1. Archaic form of a.

la

1. Archaic form of a.

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From Latin illa(m).

la

1. the; feminine singular definite article

• el
• i
• le

• IPA^(key): /laː/

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• Hyphenation: la
• Rhymes: -aː

From earlier lade through regular syncope of intervocalic -d- (compare weer, blij, broer), from Middle Dutch lāde, from Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.

la f (plural laden or la's, diminutive laatje n)

1. drawer

• lade

• bestekla
• bureaula
• schuifla

• Afrikaans: laai
• → Caribbean Hindustani: láh
• → Caribbean Javanese: latye (from the diminutive form)
• → Papiamentu: lachi, laadsje (from lade)

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

la f (plural la's, diminutive laatje n)

1. la (music)

• al

From Latin illa(m), feminine form of ille.

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Hyphenation: la

la f sg (plural al or el or li)

1. the

la (personal)

1. (nominative case) she
2. (accusative case) her

• Becomes l’ before a vowel.
• Becomes -la when acting as an enclitic.

Borrowed from French la, Italian la, Spanish la, all ultimately from Medieval Latin ille.

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• IPA^(key): [la]
• Hyphenation: la

la

1. the

   la libro — the book

   la libroj — the books

   la angla lingvo — the English language

   la angla — (the) English (language) (clipped form)

• l' (poetic)

From lauantai.

la

1. Abbreviation of lauantai (“Saturday”).

• IPA^(key): /la/

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• Homophones: là, las

From Middle French la, from Old French la, from Latin illam, which is the accusative singular feminine of ille.[1]

la f sg

1. the (definite article)

• la becomes l’ before a vowel or an unaspirated h.

  l’amitié ― the friendship

  l’île ― the island

  l’oasis ― the oasis

• à la

• → Norwegian Bokmål: la

la f sg

1. her, it (direct object)

   Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas.

   Where is Judith? I don't see her.

   Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin.

   Take that box and put it in the corner.

la m (plural la)

1. (music) la, the note 'A'

• donner le la

• là

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

From Latin illa(m).

la f sg (plural lis)

1. the

• lis, il

la f (accusative)

1. Alternative form of a (“her”)

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word

• a
• lo
• na

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
2. (music) A (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

• laa

la f (uncountable)

1. wool

From Portuguese lá. Cognate with Kabuverdianu la.

la

1. there

• IPA^(key): /la/

From French l'art.

la

1. art

la

1. the (definite article)

This article is used only after a word that ends with an oral (non-nasal) vowel and an oral consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

• a
• an
• lan
• nan
• yo
• yon

From French là (“there”).

la

1. there

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒ]

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• Rhymes: -lɒ

la

1. (archaic) used in dialects at the end of an exclamatory sentence as an emphasis

   ott van la! ― there it is!

2. a syllable used when singing a tune without lyrics

• (for emphasis): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (syllable used when singing): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (alternative form of lá, used in solfège): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (used in à la, cf. à): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• (apocopic form) l'

• IPA^(key): /la/

Borrowed from Esperanto la, from French la, Italian la, Spanish la.

la (plural le)

1. the

Borrowed from English la, French la, Italian la, Spanish la, Portuguese lá, German A, Russian ля (lja).

la (plural le la or lai)

1. (music) la

la

1. (accusative) her
2. (dative) to her

From Latin illa(m), feminine of ille.

la f sg (masculine el)

1. feminine singular definite article the
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

From Latin illa(m), feminine form of ille.[1]

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: la

la f sg (plural le)

1. the

• The article la elides with words that begin with a vowel, becoming l'.

la f sg (plural le, masculine lo)

1. (accusative) her, it

   La vedo. ― I see her.

   • a. 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini:

     […] una improvvisa timidezza però la immobilizza […]

     […] a sudden timidity immobilized her though […]

2. (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)

   La vedo. ― I see you.

   Scusi se la disturbo. ― Sorry to bother you.

• -la (enclitic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈla/^°, /ˈla/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: là

la m (invariable)

1. (music) la (musical note)
2. (music) A (musical note and scale)

• la maggiore
• la minore

• La (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• la in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

• al

la

1. Rōmaji transcription of ら゚
2. Rōmaji transcription of ラ゚

Borrowed from Burmese လ (la.).

la

1. month

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

From Portuguese lá.

la

1. there

la

1. in

   Ni-nja la wawa-mu.

   They are below you.

   (literally, “They are in below you”)

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 127

-la- [1]

1. to leave, to go

   kula - thou goest

   kulosi - ye go

   bala - I will go

• kusisu, bala

• -wa-

From Latin illa(m).

la f (singular)

1. the

• The article la elides with words that begin with a vowel, becoming l'.

• l
• l'
• i
• les

la (Hebrew spelling לה, plural las, masculine el)

1. the (feminine singular)

From Latin illa(m), feminine singular of ille.

la f sg (masculine el, neuter lu, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. the (definite article)

• The prepositions cun, en and pur contract with la, unless la is part of a proper noun.

  ‎cun + ‎la → ‎cula

  ‎en + ‎la → ‎na

  ‎pur + ‎la → ‎pula

• The article la becomes l' before a word beginning with a a or ha:

  l'aviespa ― the wasp

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Rhymes: -a

Pronunciation spelling of lah.

la

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of lah.

Clipping of la ni, itself a clipping of kala ini, making la a clipping of kala.

la (Jawi spelling لا)

1. (dialectal, Kedah, Kelantan-Pattani, Terengganu) At the present time or moment; now.

   Synonyms: sekarang, la ni, ini

• “la” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /laː/
• Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /la/.

From Arabic لَا (lā). Doublet of le (“no”).

la

1. Used—optionally—with a negated second-person imperfect verb to express the negated imperative.

   La tisraqx!

   Don't steal!.

2. Used to express negative intention.

la

1. neither, nor

   La jiekol u la jixrob. ― He doesn't eat nor drink.

2. (obsolete) except

   Synonym: ħlief

Probably from Arabic لَمَّا (lammā).

la

1. when
2. since

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la (la⁵／la⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啦
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚹
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鞡
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𤷟
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𩋷

la

1. Nonstandard spelling of lā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of là.

• 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.

la

1. in

   Kak la marabay, Səmon kona aŋa Yuhana, kà uwana dza asik à uwana apə̀hakala dziriga uwaga aw, ama Baba gulo uwana la zagəla la afik la uwana apə̀hakala uwaga.(Mata 16:17)[1]

   Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.(Matthew 16:17)

2. from

   Ama ləv aŋatà kà kərkər la gi (Mata 15:8)[2]

   But their heart is far away from me. (Matthew 15:8)

From French la.

• IPA^(key): [la]

la f (masculine li, masculine and feminine plural lii)

1. the

From Old French la, from Latin illam.

la f (masculine le, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. the

• French: la
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: la

From Old French la.

• là (circa 1550)

la

1. there

• French: là

From Latin illa(m).

la f (plural las, masculine l, masculine plural ls)

1. the

   la lhéngua mirandesa

   the Mirandese language

la

1. rain

la

1. Alternative form of 'a

From Old French la, from Latin illa(m).

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la f (plural les)

1. (Jersey) the (feminine singular definite article)

   la beque ― the spade

   la crôte ― the crust

   la léçon ― the lesson

   la tâsse ― the cup

• (gender) lé

From the verb late.

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past lot, past participle latt)

1. to let

   La sovende hunder ligge. ― Let sleeping dogs lie.

2. to leave (in a given state)

   la dem (være) i fred ― leave them alone

From Old Norse hlaða.

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past ladde, past participle ladd)

1. alternative form of lade

la

1. simple past of legge

From French la (“the”), from Middle French la (“the”), from Old French la (“the”), from Latin illam (“that, those”), which is the accusative singular feminine of ille (“that, those”), from Old Latin olle (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ol-no- or *h₂l̥-no-, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).

• IPA^(key): /la/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: la

la

1. (Used in certain expressions of French origin) the

   à la, à la carte, à la grecque, à la mode, à la maison, à la suite

• “la” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/

From Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną. Akin to English let.

• lata, late (long forms)

la (present tense lar or lèt, past tense lét, supine latt or late, past participle latt or laten, present participle latande, imperative la)

1. let, allow

   La meg få gjera det.

   Let me do it.

• la vera
• la bli
• la seg gjera

From Old Norse hlaða, a strong verb from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

• lada, lade (long forms)

la (present tense lar, past tense ladde, supine ladd or ladt, past participle ladd, present participle ladande, imperative la)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load, charge

   Synonym: laste

• lading f
• ladekabel m

• løe f
• lass n
• lade m

From Latin labii, from the first word of the sixth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

la m (definite singular la-en, indefinite plural la-ar, definite plural la-ane)

1. (music) la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

la

1. past of leggja and legga

• “la” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• al

From Old Occitan la, from Latin illa(m).

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la (masculine lo, feminine plural las, masculine plural los)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

Unknown. Probably onomatopoeic. Compare Polish ła. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/

lā

1. lo!, oh!, ah!

   Lā! næddrena cyn.

   Oh! generation of vipers.

2. Enclitic particle used to emphasise interrogation, exclamation, entreaty, affirmation, negation

   Ðā cwæþ ic hwæt is ðæt lā?

   then said I 'what then is that?'

From Latin illa(m).

la

1. the (feminine singular oblique definite article)
2. the (feminine singular nominative definite article)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Trop avons fet grant reposee,
     Recomançomes la meslee!

     We have rested too much
     Let's restart the battle! (literally, the mix)

la

1. it (feminine singular object pronoun)

• Middle French: la
  • French: la
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: la

• le

From a form of Proto-Celtic *letos (“side”), from which leth, which could be related to *ɸletos (“side”). However, compare Latin latus. The sense “in the language of” is a semantic loan from Latin apud and is perhaps encountered only in glosses of the Latin construction.

• IPA^(key): /la/

la (with the accusative)

1. with
2. belonging to
3. among
4. in the language of
5. in the opinion of
6. by (indicating the agent of a passive verb)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:la.

Combinations with a definite article:

• lassin (masculine and feminine singular)
• lassa (neuter singular)
• lasna (plural)

Combinations with a possessive determiner:

• lam (“with my”)
• lat (“with your sg”)
• lia (“with his/her/its/their”)
• liar (“with our”)

Combinations with a relative pronoun:

• lassa (“with which”)

• Irish: le
• Manx: lesh
• Scottish Gaelic: le

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “la”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 272–73, 523

From Latin illa(m).

la (masculine lo)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

• Occitan: la

la

1. Alternative form of a (third-person feminine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

la

1. feminine of e’ (“the”)

• ла (la) (Transnistria (Moldova))

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Rhymes: -a

From Latin illac.

la (+accusative)

1. at

   Suntem la Paris.

   We're at Paris.

2. to, towards

From Latin lavāre, present active infinitive of lavō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

• (Transylvania) lăia

a la (third-person singular present lă, past participle lăut) 1st conj.

1. (uncommon) to wash (especially the head)

   Synonyms: se spăla, scălda, îmbăia

• lăutoare, lăutură

• lături
• lăun
• spăla

la

1. sun

la

1. name

• Basic Vocabulary, page 63

• -lla (pronoun, enclitic, used when previous syllable is stressed)
• -ra (pronoun, enclitic, used when previous syllable is unstressed)

From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).

• IPA^(key): /la/, (after a word ending in a vowel) /ra/

la f sg (plural li, masculine lu)

1. the (feminine singular)

• Becomes l' before a vowel.

la f (plural li, masculine lu)

1. (followed by chi) that
2. her (accusative)
3. it (accusative)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illa, from Latin illam, from illa.

• a

• IPA^(key): /la/

la f sg (m lu, plural li)

1. (feminine singular definite article) the

   Synonym: a

• This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart a. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
• Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
• Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'. Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancina (liquid) and ârancina (illiquid).

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illa, from Latin illam, from illa.

• -la (enclitic)
• a (illiquid form)

• IPA^(key): /la/

la f sg (plural li, masculine lu)

1. (accusative) her

   Synonym: a

   La canusci? ― Do you know her?

2. (accusative) it, this or that thing

   Synonym: a

   Quannu ti la desi. ― When I gave it to you.

• This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
• Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
• Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'.

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

la

1. these; class 6 proximal demonstrative.

• IPA^(key): /la/ [la]

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la

From Old Spanish ela, from Latin illa(m), feminine singular of ille.

la f sg (plural las, masculine el, masculine plural los)

1. the

la

1. accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal)
2. impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases: it, this

   La sabe toda.

   He/she knows everything (it all)

   ¡Dónde la viste!

   Where have you seen this!

   No te la creo.

   I don't believe you.

• Sometimes used where English would prefer a possessive: tengo algo en la bolsa (literally “I have something in the bag”) as opposed to tengo algo en mi bolsa (“I have something in my bag”). This is especially true with body parts and with articles of clothing or similar accessories.
• Where a feminine noun begins with stressed (h)a-, though not common, el is used instead: el alma, el águila, el hacha. (The article remains la where an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun: la majestuosa águila.) The plural remains las.

• a la
• a la de
• lo
• saberla
• pasarla
• jugársela
• buscársela
• verla

• → Translingual: La

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
2. (music) A (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: es:Music)}

• “la”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• al

la

1. Romanization of 𒆷 (la)

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From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

-la (infinitive kula)

1. to eat
2. (by extension) to consume, to eradicate