leche
Cebuano
Middle English
Etymology 1
Probably from Old English *læc, *lec, compare leccan (“to wet, moisten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛːt͡ʃ/, /lɛt͡ʃ/
References
- “lē̆ch(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old French lesche, laiche, leske.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛːt͡ʃ(ə)/, /lɛt͡ʃ(ə)/
References
- “lē̆che, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English lēce, lǣce, from Proto-West Germanic *lākī.
References
- “lẹ̄che, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
From Old English lēce, lǣce.
Descendants
- English: leech
Old French
Spanish

Leche
Etymology
From Old Spanish leche, from an earlier *leite<*laite, from Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare Catalan llet, Esperanto lakto, French lait, Friulian lat, Interlingua lacte, Italian latte, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlet͡ʃe/ [ˈle.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -etʃe
- Syllabification: le‧che
Noun
leche f (plural leches)
Derived terms
- (diminutive): lechita
- arroz con leche
- a toda leche
- blanca y en botella, leche
- café con leche
- cagando leches
- cagarse en la leche
- diente de leche
- dulce de leche
- extractor de leche
- la leche
- leche asada
- leche condensada
- leche de almendra
- leche de arroz
- leche de avellana
- leche de avena
- leche de cáñamo
- leche de coco
- leche desnatada
- leche de soja
- leche de tigre
- leche entera
- leche fresca
- leche frita
- leche materna
- leche natural
- leche normal
- lechería f
- lechero
- mala leche
- me cago en la leche
- mil leches
- ni qué leches
- perro de mil leches
- pez de leche
- qué leches
- sacaleche
- sacaleches
Verb
leche
- inflection of lechar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “leche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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