lueñe

From Latin longē.

lueñe

1. far

   Synonym: lexos

   • 1251, anonymous, Calila e Dimna, (ed. by Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua and María Jesús Lacarra, 1993, Madrid: Castalia):

     Et a las vezes acaesçe al rey alguna enfermedat que le faze grant mal et non gela tuelle sinon la melezina que le aduzen de lueñe.

     And, sometimes, an illness falls upon the king, doing him much harm, and nothing removes it except the medicine brought to him from far away

• lueñe

Inherited from Old Spanish lueñe, from Latin longē. Cognate with Portuguese longe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlweɲe/ [ˈlwe.ɲe]
• Rhymes: -eɲe
• Syllabification: lue‧ñe

lueñe

1. (obsolete) far

   Synonym: lejos

   • c. 1574, Jerónimo de Urrea, Primera parte del libro del invencible caballero don Clarisel de las Flores:

     Amigo, dezidme si os pluguiere, es lueñe de aquí el Castillo de Filotea?

     My friend, tell me, if it may please you, is the Castle of Filotea far from here?

lueñe m or f (masculine and feminine plural lueñes)

1. (uncommon or literary) faraway, distant

   Synonyms: lejano, alejado, longincuo

• “lueñe”, 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
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “lueñe”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]