leto

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.t̪o]

lētō (present infinitive lētāre, perfect active lētāvī, supine lētātum); first conjugation

1. to kill, to slay
   • 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 503:

     Quique Lycurgiden letavit, et arbore natum, / Idmonaque audacem, te quoque rumpat aper.

     And the boar who has killed the son of Lycurgus, and him who has been born from a tree, and the keen Idmon, shall tear you asunder too!

lētō m

1. dative/ablative singular of lētum

• “leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “leto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "leto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• leto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “leto”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “leto”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “leto”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

lèto f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lètu

leto

1. (obsolete) past plural of lata
2. (obsolete) past plural of låta

• loet, lote, tole, tòle

Borrowed from French letton / lette.

leto (feminine leta, masculine plural letos, feminine plural letas, not comparable)

1. Latvian (of, from, or pertaining to Latvia)

leto m (plural letos, feminine leta, feminine plural letas)

1. Latvian (person from Latvia)

leto m (uncountable)

1. Latvian (language)

   Synonyms: lético, letão, letonês, letoniano, (Brazil) letônio, (Portugal) letónio

• “leto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “leto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• ljȅto (Ijekavian)
• lito (Ikavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

• IPA^(key): /lêto/
• Hyphenation: le‧to

lȅto n (Cyrillic spelling ле̏то)

1. summer, summertime
2. (archaic) year

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʎetɔ]

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leto n

1. summer

• letný
• letno

• seasons: ročné obdobia: jar · leto · jeseň · zima ^[edit]

• “leto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *lěto (“summer; year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁tom.

• IPA^(key): /lèːtɔ/, SNPT: lẹ́to

lẹ́to n

1. year
2. (rare) annual harvest
3. (archaic) summer

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• “leto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “leto”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

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leto

1. those; class 8 distal demonstrative.

• łeto

From Latin lectus. Compare Italian letto.

leto m (plural leti)

1. bed