leu

leu

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“lion”), from Latin leō (“lion”). Doublet of Leo, lev, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.uː/

Noun

leu (plural lei)

  1. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
  2. The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.

Translations

Anagrams

  • -ule, Elu, Lue, lue, ule

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

  • lei

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

  1. (Morvan) place

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈlɛw]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈlew]

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

  1. leu (currency of Romania)
  2. leu (currency of Moldova)

Further reading

  • “leu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “leu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “leu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Champenois

Alternative forms

  • lou, lop, léoué, laoué

Etymology

Inherited from Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lø/

Noun

leu m (feminine leuve, plural leus)

  1. (Troyen) wolf

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎[2] (in French), Troyes

Finnish

Etymology

From Romanian leu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleu̯/, [ˈle̞u̯]
  • Rhymes: -eu
  • Hyphenation(key): leu

Noun

leu

  1. leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)

Declension

Synonyms

  • lei

Further reading

  • “leu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

  • lue

French

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”). Doublet of lion.

Pronunciation

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

  1. leu (currency of Romania)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • élu, lue

Galician

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

  1. leu

Verb

leu

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Middle French

Verb

leu

  1. past participle of lire

Old French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛw/

Etymology 1

From Latin lupus.

Alternative forms

  • lou, lu

Noun

leu oblique singular, m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

  1. wolf (animal)
Descendants
  • Middle French: leu
    • ⇒ French: à la queue leu leu
  • ⇒ Middle French: loup
    • French: loup
      • Haitian Creole: lou
      • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu
      • ⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou
      • → English: loo; Loup

Etymology 2

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu oblique singular, m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

  1. place
Synonyms
  • endroit
Derived terms
  • Middle French: lieu
    • French: lieu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lʲeu̯]

Pronoun

leu

  1. third-person plural accusative of la
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b20
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97d10

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lejos and French loin .

Adjective

leu

  1. far

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: leu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“leu; lion”).

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

  1. leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova)

Etymology 2

Verb

leu

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • леу (leu) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Probably a later learned borrowing from Latin leō (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). If inherited from the nominative form, the expected result in Romanian would have been *ieu (as iepure from leporem); furthermore, all the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form leōnem or genitive leōnis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also lăun and Lăune(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie.

For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the Dutch leeuwendaalder (“lion thaler/dollar”), which depicted a lion; compare daalder, also German Löwenthaler. This traces back to the 17th century, when the Dutch currency was used in the Romanian principalities.

Another explanation gives the origin of this sense as a calque of Turkish arslan (“lion”), which was also used to refer to a type of currency with a lion on it; see also piastru (English piastre). Compare also the sense of currency with Bulgarian лев (lev).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lew/
  • Rhymes: -ew

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

  1. lion
  2. leu (Romanian and Moldovan unit of currency)

Declension

Derived terms

  • leoaică
  • leoaie

Further reading

  • leu in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Romanian leu (“lion”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛu̯/
  • Homophone: lev

Noun

leu m inan (nominative plural lei)

  1. leu (currency of Romania)

Usage notes

  • This noun can also be undeclined.

Further reading

  • “leu”, 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, 2003–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu.

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

  1. leu

Walloon

Alternative forms

  • leû

Etymology

From Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /løː/

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

  1. wolf

References

  • “Leu” in Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français (1852).
  • “Leu” in Joseph Hubert, Dictionnaire wallon-liégeois et français (1853).

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