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leste

1. inflection of lessen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

• IPA^(key): /lɛst/

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• Homophones: lestent, lestes
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Borrowed from Italian lesto.

leste (plural lestes)

1. 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)

• avoir la main leste
• lestement

leste

1. inflection of lester:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

From French l’est, from Old English ēast.

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• L

leste m (plural lestes)

1. (uncountable) east (cardinal direction)
2. (uncountable) the eastern portion of a territory or region
3. (countable) an eastern; a wind blowing from the east

• (east): levante, nacente, oriente
• (eastern portion): oriente
• (eastern wind): levante

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

• norte
• occidente
• sur

• norleste
• surleste
• Timor Leste

leste

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular preterite indicative of ler

les +‎ -te

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛʃtɛ]
• Hyphenation: les‧te

leste

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of les

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ste/
• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: lè‧ste

leste

1. feminine plural of lesto

• stele

leste

1. last; final
   • 14^th 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

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leste m or f

1. (Jersey) nimble

leste

1. simple past of lese

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

Borrowed from French l’est (“the east”)[1][2], from le, l’ (“the”) + est (“east”), from Old English ēast (“east”), from Proto-West Germanic *austr. Distant cognate to austro, via Latin.

• Hyphenation: les‧te

leste m (plural lestes)

1. east (compass point)

   Synonyms: este, lés

• (compass points) ponto cardeal;

noroeste	norte	nordeste
oeste poente ocidente		leste este nascente oriente
sudoeste	sul	sudeste

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: les‧te

leste

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of ler

• lêste (obsolete)