Latin dictionary · verb

legō

to collect, gather, bring together, catch

Dictionary forms: legō, legere, lēgī, lēctum

Inflection: third conjugation

Meaning and definitions

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

Connected roots

• lect-

  reading, choosing, gathering

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• select

  to carefully choose as being the best or most suitable

• collect

  to bring or gather together

• dialect

  A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

• legible

  clear enough to be read

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