League Definition

Origin of League

• Alteration (influenced by Italian lega) of Middle English liege from Old French ligue from Medieval Latin liga and from Old Italian lega, liga (from legare to bind) both from Latin ligāre to bind leig- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English ligg, from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“to tie").

  From Wiktionary

• Middle English lege from Old French liue, leguee from Latin leuga a measure of distance of Gaulish origin

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Late Latin leuga, possibly from Gaulish or Celtic.

  From Wiktionary