longe

• lunge (UK)

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

• IPA^(key): /lʌnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌndʒ
• Homophone: lunge

longe (third-person singular simple present longes, present participle longeing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (US, transitive) To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

longe (plural longes)

1. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
2. (obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 59, in The Adventures of Roderick Random‎^[1], volume 2, London: J. Osborn, page 252:

     […] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […]

3. (military) The training ground for a horse.
   • 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow’s Military Encyclopedia‎^[2], volume 2, New York, page 230:

     LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.

• longæ, longas

longe

1. plural of longa

• “longe”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Leong, elong, on leg

longe

1. plural of long

• IPA^(key): /ˈlonɡe/

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• Rhymes: -onɡe
• Syllabification: lon‧ge

longe

1. lengthily

• antaŭlonge (“long ago”)
• mallonge (“briefly”)

• “longe”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “longe”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

longe

1. feminine singular of long

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃ʒ/

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longe

1. inflection of longer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

longe (comparative plus longe, superlative le plus longe)

1. long

From longus (“far, long”) + -ē. Compare English long and Icelandic langt and lengi.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɔŋ.ɡeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]

longē (comparative longius, superlative longissimē)

1. (of space) long, a long way off, far, afar, far away, far off, at a distance
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.19:

     Sed quam longē vidētur ā carcere atque ā vinculīs abesse dēbēre, quī sē ipse iam dignum cūstōdia iūdicārit.

     But how far from prison and from chains does it seem he ought to be, who he himself has already judged worthy of custody?
     (Catiline had asked for protective custody.)

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.31:

     arcēbat longē Latiō

     [Juno] was keeping [the Trojans] far away from Latium

   Longe absum.

   I’m far away.

   Longe absum ab eius criminibus.

   I’m far away from his crimes.

2. (of time) long, for a long period of time

   Neque longe progressus ― not much time has passed (Charles François Lhomond, De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae, Lucius Cornelius Sulla)

3. widely, greatly, much, very much

   Docet longe alia ratione esse bellum gerendum atque antea gestum sit ― He teaches that they must fight by a very different method from that which had been previously adopted (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 14)

• (far): longiter

• longē sum

longe

1. vocative masculine singular of longus

• “longe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “longe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “longe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
    
  • (ambiguous) far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
    
  • (ambiguous) the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
    
  • (ambiguous) this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est
    
  • (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
    
  • (ambiguous) to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
    
  • (ambiguous) to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
    

From Old English lange (“for a long time”); By surface analysis, long (“long”) +‎ -e (adverbial suffix)

• long, longue
• lang, lange (Early Middle English or Northern); leonge (Laȝamon's Brut), lannꟑe (Ormulum)
• lung (Northwest Midland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ̝ːnɡ(ə)/, /ˈlɔnɡ(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈloːnɡ(ə)/, /ˈlunɡ(ə)/ (West Midland)
• IPA^(key): /lanɡ/, /laːnɡ/ (Northern)

longe (comparative leng, lengere, longere, superlative lengest, longest)

1. Long; for a long time.
2. Long; for for a particular duration.
3. In, from, or at the past; beforehand, long ago.
4. (uncommon) Far; to a great distance.
5. (rare) To a great degree.

• English: long
• Middle Scots: lang
  • Scots: lang
• Yola: lhaung, long

• “lō̆nge, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “long, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

longe

1. inflection of long:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural
2. (Late Middle English) alternative form of long

longe

1. feminine plural of luongo

longe

1. shallow water

• Mark Donohue (1999), A Grammar of Tukang Besi, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 541

Derived from French long (“long”).

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. a rein for horses

From Old Norse lǫngu, oblique singular case of langa, whence the form lange.

longe f or m (definite singular longa or longen, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. common ling, Molva molva

• “longe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• gloen, logen, logne, -logen

Derived from French long (“long”).

longe m (definite singular longen, indefinite plural longar, definite plural longane)

1. a rein for horses

From Old Norse lǫngu, neuter dative singular of langr (“long”).

• longo (non-standard since 2012)

longe

1. a long time ago
2. already

From Old Norse lǫngu, oblique singular case of langa (“ling”).

longe f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer, definite plural longene)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of lange

• logne, ongle

• IPA^(key): /ˈlon.ɡe/, [ˈloŋ.ɡe]

longe

1. alternative spelling of lange

From Old Galician-Portuguese longe, from Latin longe.

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• Hyphenation: lon‧ge

longe (comparable, comparative mais longe, superlative o mais longe)

1. far, a long way

   Antonym: perto

longe m or f (plural longes)

1. distant, faraway

• “longe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “longe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026