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lego

Pronunciation: [ˈɫɛ.ɡoː]

“lego” is a Latin word. Its 13 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to collect, gather, bring together, catch
  2. to choose, select
  3. to appoint
  4. to take out, pick out, extract, remove
  5. to take to one's self unjustly, carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract
  6. to read
  7. to teach, profess
  8. to be bound, fettered, detained
  9. to dispatch, send as ambassador
  10. to send on mission
  11. to assign as a legatus
  12. to delegate, entrust, assign, deputize
  13. to appoint by a last will or testament, leave or bequeath as a legacy

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti, from the root *leǵ- (“to gather”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak, to choose, to mean”) and Albanian mbledh. May be related to lēx. For etymology 1 sense 6 (“to read”), compare typologically Russian разбира́ть (razbirátʹ), разбира́ться (razbirátʹsja) (< брать (bratʹ)), разбо́рчивый (razbórčivyj) (по́черк (póčerk)).

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