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leto

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See also: LETO, Leto, letó, léto, lěto, lēto, łeto, and лето

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

lētō (present infinitive lētāre, perfect active lētāvī, supine lētātum); first conjugation

  1. to kill, to slay
    • 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 503:
      Quique Lycurgiden letavit, et arbore natum, / Idmonaque audacem, te quoque rumpat aper.
      And the boar who has killed the son of Lycurgus, and him who has been born from a tree, and the keen Idmon, shall tear you asunder too!

Conjugation

Noun

lētō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of lētum

References

  • leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "leto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • leto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • leto”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia
  • leto”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leto”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lèto f

  1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lètu

Verb

leto

  1. (obsolete) past plural of lata
  2. (obsolete) past plural of låta

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French letton / lette.

Pronunciation

Adjective

leto (feminine leta, masculine plural letos, feminine plural letas, not comparable)

  1. Latvian (of, from, or pertaining to Latvia)

Noun

leto m (plural letos, feminine leta, feminine plural letas)

  1. Latvian (person from Latvia)

Noun

leto m (uncountable)

  1. Latvian (language)
    Synonyms: lético, letão, letonês, letoniano, (Brazil) letônio, (Portugal) letónio

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (summer; year), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lêto/
  • Hyphenation: le‧to

Noun

lȅto n (Cyrillic spelling ле̏то) (Ekavian)

  1. summer, summertime
  2. (literary) year
    Sedam leta TibetaSeven Years in Tibet

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

See also

Seasons in Serbo-Croatian · godišnja doba / годишња доба (layout · text) · category
spring:
proleće, proljeće
пролеће, прољеће
summer:
leto, ljeto
лето, љето
autumn:
jesen
јесен
winter:
zima
зима
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Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (summer; year), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʎetɔ]
  • Audio (Bratislava):(file)

Noun

leto n

  1. summer

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

See also

Further reading

  • leto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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Slovene

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Wikipedia sl

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lěto (summer; year), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

Pronunciation

Noun

lẹ́to n

  1. year
  2. (rare) annual harvest
  3. (archaic) summer

Declension


More information First neuter declension (hard o-stem) , fixed accent, only acute in nominative and accusative dual, nom. sing. ...

Further reading

  • leto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • leto”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references
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Swazi

Etymology

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

Pronoun

leto

  1. those; class 8 distal demonstrative.

Venetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin lectus. Compare Italian letto.

Noun

leto m (plural leti)

  1. bed

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