league
English
/liːɡ/
noun
Definitions
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal)
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English liege derived from Middle French ligue derived from Italian lega derived from Latin ligō (bind, tie, bandage, I tie, bind up together, fasten, unite).
Origin
Latin
ligō
Gloss
bind, tie, bandage, I tie, bind up together, fasten, unite
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
👔 🪢
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Cactus League English
- Canadian English
- Canadian Football League English
- Grapefruit League English
- Hanseatic English
- Hanseatic League English
- beer English
- beer league English
- beer leaguer English
- cactus English
- enleague English
- football English
- grapefruit English
- inleague English
- interleague English
- intraleague English
- leaguewide English
- leaguist English
- liege English
- non-league English
- nonleague English
- superleague English
- alligo Latin
- circumligo Latin
- illigo Latin
- leuca Latin
- ligamen Latin
- ligatura Latin
- ligātiōnem, ligātiō Latin
- ligātura Latin
- ligō Latin
- obligo Latin
- religo Latin
- capolega Italian
- cuprolega Italian
- ferrolega Italian
- lega Italian
- legato Italian
- superlega Italian
- ligue French
- liga Spanish, Castilian
- *leyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- カナディアンフットボールリーグ Japanese
- リーグ Japanese
- 大リーグ Japanese
- liege Middle English
- liege Old French
- ligi Esperanto
- liga Serbo-Croatian
- ligue Middle French
- liaça Old Portuguese
- leg Aromanian
- ligi Swahili
- 리그 Korean