lenda

Meaning

  1. (feminine) legend (story describing extraordinary events)
  2. (feminine) legend (person of extraordinary accomplishment)
  3. (feminine) legend (an inscription, motto, or title)
  4. (archaic, feminine) writing system, script

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈlendɐ]
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese leenda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints, originally things to be read”), neuter plural of the future past participle of legō (“I read”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.

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