Noun: ley
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] ⁊ uinierõ ⁊ fraguarõ la caſa ⁊ fizierõ ẏ altar. ⁊ ofreçierõ ſo olocauſt. como es eſc̃pto en la ley demoẏſen. uarõ de dios (And they came and set the house and made an altar there. And they offered their burnt offering according to what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.) [c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r.:]
Nouns inflected like ley
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”). See: Latin Nouns '
lēx', Latin Nouns '
lēx'.
Verbs referencing "ley"
Spanish Nouns
ley.
Translations