lette

Inherited from Old French letre, from Latin littera.

IPA^(key): /lɛt/

lette f (plural lettes)

1. (Troyen) letter

• 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

• IPA^(key): /lɛtə/, [ˈlɛd̥ə]

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lette c (singular definite letten, plural indefinite letter)

1. Lett, Latvian (a person from Latvia or of Latvian descent)

• Letland ("Latvia")
• lettisk (adjective) ("Latvian")

From let (“light”) +‎ -e. Cognate with Middle Low German lichten.

lette (imperative let, infinitive at lette, present tense letter, past tense lettede, perfect tense er/har lettet)

1. lighten
2. relieve
3. facilitate
4. ease
5. lift
6. take off

• lettelse ("relief")
• lettet ("relieved")

See let (“light, easy, mild, slight”).

lette

1. inflection of let:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

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lette

1. inflection of letten:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past/present subjunctive

• teelt

Corruption of laide.

• IPA^(key): /lɛt/

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lette (plural lettes)

1. (Canada, slang) ugly

   Je te défends de dire que tu es lette. ― I forbid you to say that you're ugly.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛt.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛtte
• Hyphenation: lèt‧te

lette f

1. plural of letta

lette f pl

1. feminine plural of letto

• tetel

lette

1. inflection of letten:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. first/third-person singular past indicative/subjunctive

lette

1. definite singular of lett
2. plural of lett

From Old Norse létta.

lette (imperative lett, present tense letter, passive lettes, simple past and past participle letta or lettet, present participle lettende)

1. to ease, relieve, lessen, lighten
2. to take off (of a plane, bird)

• lettelse

• leita, leitet, leitte (of leite)

lette

1. simple past of leite
2. simple past of lete

• “lette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

lette

1. definite singular of lett
2. plural of lett

lette

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of lettan

lette

1. bed