Definitions for leges

leges le·ges

Spelling: [lee-jeez; Latin le-ges]
IPA: /ˈli dʒiz; Latin ˈlɛ gɛs/

Leges is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in leges (eegls).

Definitions for leges

noun

  1. plural of lex.
  2. law1 .

Origin of leges

First recorded in 1490-1500, lex is from the Latin word lēx

Examples for leges

Here the dissenter who proclaims his sincere convictions is spoken of with respect: compare the contrary feeling, leges, ix.

And this upon the general principle laid down in the last section, that "leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant."

In the Parmenidês, Timæus, and the leges, such elements will be looked for in vain.

The leges and Menexenus stand apart from the Cycle, as compositions on special occasion.

This also failing, there followed the leges tabellariæ, establishing the ballot (139-137).

These pure notions are the laws of the operation of the intellect; they are leges intellectus.

Of this sort of leges some very valuable specimens have come from Spanish soil, viz.

They are printed in the Monumenta Germaniae, leges, tome i. .

This latter code obtained in the commercial world of Europe the same authority as the old "leges Rhodi" of the ancients.

These parts of the Breviarium consisted of leges, that is, of constitutions of the emperors.

Word Value for leges
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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