legende

legende (plural legendes)

1. Obsolete spelling of legend

• gleened

From Medieval Latin legenda.

legende c (singular definite legenden, plural indefinite legender)

1. a legend

   en levende legende - a living legend

• legendarisk

From the verb at lege.

legende

1. present participle of at lege

From Middle Dutch legende, from Middle French legende, from Old French legende, from Latin legenda.

• IPA^(key): /ˌləˈɣɛn.də/, /ˌleːˈɣɛn.də/

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• Hyphenation: le‧gen‧de

legende f (plural legenden or legendes, diminutive legendetje n)

1. legend (fictional story based on oral tradition, possibly with a kernel of truth)

• dolkstootlegende

• legenda

• IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒɛn.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛnde
• Hyphenation: le‧gèn‧de

legende f pl

1. plural of legenda

legende

1. vocative masculine singular of legendus

• legande, legant, legent

Borrowed from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda.

• IPA^(key): /lɛˈd͡ʒɛnd(ə)/, /ˈlɛd͡ʒɛnd(ə)/, /lɛːˈd͡ʒɛnd(ə)/, /ˈlɛːd͡ʒɛnd(ə)/, /-and(ə)/, /-ɛnt/

legende (plural legendes)

1. A hagiography (biography of a saint)
2. A compendium of hagiographies
3. A historical narrative (usually about an individual)

• English: legend
• Scots: leegend

• “leǧende, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-30.

From Medieval Latin legenda.

legende m (definite singular legenden, indefinite plural legender, definite plural legendene)

1. a legend

   en levende legende ― a living legend

• legendarisk

legende

1. present participle of lege

• “legende” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin legenda.

legende f (definite singular legenda, indefinite plural legender, definite plural legendene)

1. a legend

   ei levande legende - a living legend

• legendarisk

• “legende” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin legenda.

legende oblique singular, f (oblique plural legendes, nominative singular legende, nominative plural legendes)

1. legend (story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events; in particular an account the life of a saint)

• > French: légende (inherited)
• → Middle English: legende, legande, legant, legent
  • English: legend
  • Scots: leegend

• legende on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

legende

1. inflection of legendar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative