lêze

From Dutch lezen, from Middle Dutch lēsen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːzə/

lêze

1. to read

From Latin legere (“to read” ← “to gather, collect”), from Proto-Italic *legō, derived from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːze/

lêze

1. (transitive, intransitive) to read (to look at and interpret letters or other information that is written)
   • 14^th–15^th century, anonymous author, “De le vertue et de li vicii [Of virtues and vices]”, in Omelie latine, con miniat[ure] rappresentanti i vizî e le virtù ed alcuni episodi della vita di Gesù Cristo, con le relative illustrazioni in volgare – Il Passio secondo S. Matteo e varie preci latine – Oremus tradotti in volgare – Leggenda di S. Giov. Battista (manuscript), Iustixia [Justice], page 13:

     E lo quarto fruito de la iuſtixia ſi he ſegundo che ſe leze in lo libꝛo deuteromomio^[sic], che la iuſtixia de la ꝑſona ĩnocente ⁊ ſimplice ſi la deriza in la uia de De ⁊ no lo laxa erra.

     [E lo quarto fruito de la iustixia si è, segundo che se leze in lo libro Deuteronomio, che la iustixia de la persona innocente e simplice si la deriza in la via de Dé, e no lo laxa errà.]

     And the fourth fruit of Justice is — according to what is read in the book of Deuteronomy — that the Justice of the innocent, simple person straightens them on the way of God, and doesn't let them do wrong.

     (literally, “And the fourth fruit of Justice is, according to what one reads in the book Deuteronomy, that the Justice of the person innocent and simple straightens them on the way of God, and doesn't let them err.”)

• “lêze” Ligurian-Italian dictionary at Ligu.re

From Old Frisian lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːzə/

lêze

1. to read

• “lêze”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011