Etymology

legua

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Today it means: Spanish league, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to about 4.2 km. Full definition →

Spanish legua ← Portuguese légua ← Late Latin leuga
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*lougā
  2. Late Latin · derived fromleuga
  3. Portuguese · derived fromlégua“Portuguese league”
  4. Spanish · borrowed fromlegua“Spanish league”
  5. English todaylegua

From Spanish legua (“Spanish league”) and Portuguese légua (“Portuguese league”), from Late Latin leuga and leuca (“Gaulish league, distance of one hour's walking”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā. Doublet of league.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Celtic*lougā all →

league

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