lete

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛtɛ]

lete

1. vocative singular of let

lete f (5th declension)

1. counter (in shop)
2. bar (in refreshment room)

• lête

From Portuguese leite.

lete

1. milk

   bebinca di lete ― milk pudding

   café co lête ― coffee with milk

   china di lête ― milkman (literally, “milk Chinese”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• let, late

From Old English ġelǣte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːt(ə)/

lete (plural letes)

1. crossroads

• English: leat, leet
• Yola: leet

• “lēte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

lete

1. street

• leite

From Old Norse leita.

lete (imperative let, present tense leter, simple past lette, past participle lett)

1. to look (etter / for)
2. to search (etter / for)

• leting

• “lete” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the adjective lat.

• (noun): From Old Norse leti f.
• (verb): An umlauted factitive, possibly influenced by the noun.

lete f (definite singular leta, uncountable)

1. laziness

   Synonym: latskap

lete (present tense letar, past tense leta, past participle leta, passive infinitive letast, present participle letande, imperative lete/let)

1. (reflexive) to laze

From Old Norse lita.

lete (present tense letar, past tense leta, past participle leta, passive infinitive letast, present participle letande, imperative lete/let)

1. (transitive) to colour

   Synonyms: farge, fargelegge

• leta (a- and split infinitives)
• léte, léta (alternative spelling with either infinitives)
• lita (obsolete spelling (Aasen))

• let m (“colour”)

• “lete” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• elet, elte, etle, leet, lete, léte, tele, tele-

lete

1. locative singular of leto

lete

1. imperative singular of -leta

Borrowed from Hokkien 內底／内底 (lāi-té).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlete/ [ˈlɛ.tɛ]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: le‧te

lete (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜆᜒ)

1. insole of footwear

   Synonym: sobresuwelas

From Proto-Finnic *leet'ek. Cognates include Finnish liete, Karelian lieto (“sand”).

lete

1. sand