LESとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-les

1. genitive singular of -el

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 -lēas (“-less”) (akin to lēas (“devoid of, loose from, false”)), from Proto-West Germanic *-laus, from Proto-Germanic *-lausaz, from *lausaz (“loose”).

発音

• IPA: /-lɛ̝ːs/, /-lɛs/

接尾辞

-les

1. Lacking (something); without (something).

使用する際の注意点

• -les and its variants are affixed to nouns in order to form adjectives denoting absence of that noun.

派生語

派生した語

• English: -less
• Scots: -less

参照

• “-lē̆s, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.

発音

• IPA: /lɛz/
• 韻: -ɛz

形容詞

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.
   • 2020, Valens, Anna, Tumblr Porn, New York: Instar Books, →ISBN, →ISBN:

     Her posts would frequently feature her as a half-naked giantess, complete with her deliciously soft belly and bare breasts. Some of her photos would have her feminine penis in view, nonchalantly exposed against her thighs. It was beautiful, unquestionably les, and an incredibly rare opportunity for me (then pre-transition) to see how hormone replacement therapy feminized trans women’s bodies.

名詞

les (plural leses)

1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.

派生語

アナグラム

• SEL, SLE, Els, ELs, LSE, els, ELS, ESL

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 lēas (“false, void, loose”).

Cognate with Middle High German lōs (“loose”), Old Swedish lø̄s (“loose”); a doublet of loos.

発音

• IPA: /lɛːs/

形容詞

les

1. false; lying; deceptive

名詞

les (uncountable)

1. falsehood; a lie
   • 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:

     He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.

     He is so good, without falsehood; / (so) he's really suited to sit on a dais.

   • c. 1480, “The Creation”, in The Towneley Plays, lines 158–159:

     We held with hym ther he saide leasse / And therfor have we all unpeasse.

     We stayed with him when he uttered untruth, / and therefore we all feel discord.

   • c. 1480, “The Creation”, in The Towneley Plays, lines 193–195:

     Ye shall have joye and blis therin / Whils ye will kepe you out of syn, / I say withoutten lese.

     You'll have joy and tranquility within / if you keep yourself out of sin, / I say, without lies.