Spanish–English dictionary

lecho

Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.

lecho de muerte

The bed on which someone dies.

lecho marino

The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.

lecho pétreo

(countable, uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock found at some depth below the ground surface.

lechón

A young pig.

lechosa

The fruit of this tree.

lechoso

(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.

lechuguilla

A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

lechuguino

(by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.

lechuza

An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.

lectivo

(education) Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.

lector

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

lectores

The collected readers of a publication.

lectoría

The collected readers of a publication.

lectura

(typography, Continental, _, printing) The Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.

lectura atenta

Studying something carefully; a careful study.

lectura cuidadosa

Studying something carefully; a careful study.

led

Initialism of light-emitting diode.

leer detenidamente

(transitive) To read completely.

leer por encima

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

leerse

(ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

lefa

(uncountable, chiefly, UK, vulgar, slang) Semen.

legación

A diplomatic mission.

legado

Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.

legado pontificio

A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.

legal

(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.

legalidad

Lawfulness.

legalista

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.

legalizar

(transitive) To form into a legal company.

legalmente

As permitted by law; not contrary to law.

légamo

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

legaña

(uncountable) Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. [from 14th c.]

legar

(legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.

legatario

(legal) One who receives a legacy (inheritance).

legato

(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

legendario

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.

legibilidad

The property of being legible or easily readable.

legible

Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.

legión

(figuratively, by extension, usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

legionario

A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).

legislador

Someone who creates or enacts laws.

legisladora

Someone who creates or enacts laws.

legislativo

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.

legislatura

A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.

legisperito

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

legítimamente

In a legitimate manner, properly, fair and square.

legitimar

(transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.

legitimidad

The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.

legitimizar

(transitive) To make legitimate.

legítimo

In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

lego

Any of several small, coloured, plastic bricks, often made by the Lego Company, that can be made to join together and be taken apart, used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc.

legrar

(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

legua

A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

leguleyo

(by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.

legumbre

(botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

leguminosa

(botany) Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).

leída

The process of interpreting written language.

leído

Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

Leipzig

An independent city in Saxony, Germany.

lejanía

An image that serves as a visual background.

lejano

Distant; remote in space.

lejía

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

lejos

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

lejos de la costa

At some distance from the shore.

lelo

Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

lema

The act of entering.

leming

A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.

lemming

A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.

lémur

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

Lena

A municipality in Asturias, Spain.

leñador

A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees.

leñador furtivo

A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.

leñadora

A homosexual woman, one who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.

leñame

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

lencería

Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

lene

Gentle and not easily angered.

leñera

An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.

leñero

An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.

lengua

(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.

lengua criolla

(linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

lengua de señas

(uncountable) Sign language in general.

lengua de signos

(uncountable) Sign language in general.

lengua vernácula

Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

lenguado

(fish) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.

lenguaje

(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.

lenguaje soez

(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

lenguaz

Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

lengüeta

The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.

lengüetazo

The act by which something is licked.

lengüetear

(ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

lenguón

Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

lenidad

The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.

leniente

Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.

Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.

Leningrado

(historical) Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.

leninista

A person who follows or supports Lenin or the philosophy of Leninism.

leño

(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

lenocinio

The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes.

leñoso

(botany) Non-herbaceous.

lentamente

(manner) At a slow pace.

lente

(photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.

lentear

To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

lentecer

(intransitive) To become soft or softer

lentes

(dated) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.

lentificar

(transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

lentificarse

(intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

lentisco

An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.

lentitud

The quality or state of being slow.

lento

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

Leo

A en given name, borne by numerous saints and 14 popes.

León

A en given name, borne by numerous saints and 14 popes.

león americano

An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.

león bayo

A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.

león de montaña

A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.

león montañero

A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.

león montañés

A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.

leona

A female lion (animal).

leonado

Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Leonardo

A surname transferred from the given name.

leoncillo

The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

leonera

a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation

Leonor

A en given name.

leontina

A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.

leopardo

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

Leopoldo

A en given name. Used in the 19th century but rare today.

leotardo

A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)

leprechaun

(Irish folklore) One of a race of elves that can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.

leprosa

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

leproso

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

lerdo

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

lesbiana

(of a woman, broadly) Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.

lesbiano

(of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.

lésbico

(of a woman, broadly) Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.

lesbio

Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.

leseras

Nonsense; senseless talk.

lesión

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

lesión enorme

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

lesión enormísima

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

lesionar

(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

lesiones

(legal) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.

lesivo

Causing damage; harmful, injurious.

lesna

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

leso

Wounded, physically injured.

letal

Causing death; lethal.

letargo

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

Lete

(Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

Leteo

(Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

Leticia

A en given name, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.

Leto

(uncountable, Greek goddess) Leto, in Greek mythology, the mother of Apollo and Artemis.

letón

Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.