fleme

• fleem

From Middle English flemen, from Old English flȳman, flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight”).

fleme (third-person singular simple present flemes, present participle fleming, simple past and past participle flemed)

1. (obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleːm(ə)/

Inherited from Old English flīema (“fugitive, exile, outlaw”), from flīeman (“to escape”). Compare flem.

• fleem
• flæme, flemæ (Early Middle English)

fleme

2. (poetic) One who is banished; an exile, outcast, or fugitive.

• flemen
• outfleme

fleme

2. (poetic) Banished, exiled.

• “flẹ̄me, n.(1) & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Old French flieme, from Vulgar Latin *fletoma, from Late Latin phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβότομος (phlebótomos), φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon).

• fleom

fleme

2. (Late Middle English, rare) A lancet or fleam.

• English: fleam
• → Welsh: fflaim

• “flẹ̄me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

fleme

1. alternative form of flem

fleme

1. alternative form of flewme

fleme

1. alternative form of flemen

Borrowed from Occitan flecme, from Vulgar Latin fletoma, from Latin phlebotomus.

fleme m (plural flemes)

1. a veterinary lancet

• “fleme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025