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Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
lētō (present infinitive lētāre, perfect active lētāvī, supine lētātum); first conjugation
- 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
- 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
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
lèto f
- (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lètu
Verb
leto
- (obsolete) past plural of lata
- (obsolete) past plural of låta
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
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)
- summer, summertime
- (archaic) year
Declension
See also
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.
Pronunciation
Noun
leto n (genitive singular leta, nominative plural letá, genitive plural liet, declension pattern of mesto)
- summer
Declension
Related terms
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, 2024
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.
Pronunciation
Noun
lẹ́to n
- year
- (rare) annual harvest
- (archaic) summer
Declension
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Further reading
- “leto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “leto”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Swazi
Etymology
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Pronoun
leto
- those; class 8 distal demonstrative.
Venetian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin lectus. Compare Italian letto.
Noun
leto m (plural leti)
- bed