Lechus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Polish Lech + -us m.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lechus m sg (genitive Lechī); second declension

  1. a male given name from Polish
    • 1626, Salomon Neugebauer, “Cracus.”, in Icones et vitae principum ac regum Poloniae omnium, page 3:
      Posteriate Lechi deficiente, Poloni comitiis Gnesnae de Repub.stabilienda habiis duodecim ex Procerum numero secundum totidem Palatinatus seu Provincias deligunt, quos Palatinos seu Woievodas, hoc est, duces belli lingua patria nominarunt, illisq; rerum summam committunt.
      Later, when Lech failed, the Poles, having held an assembly at Gnesna to establish a republic, elected twelve nobles from the same number of Palatinates or Provinces, whom they named Palatines or Voivodes, that is, war leaders in their native language, and entrusted the sum of their affairs to them.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Lechus
genitive Lechī
dative Lechō
accusative Lechum
ablative Lechō
vocative Leche
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