levo
Latin
Etymology 1
From levis (“light, not heavy”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.woː/, [ˈɫɛ.woː]
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (make light, lighten): levigō
Descendants
- Aragonese: llevar
- Aromanian: ljeau, ljau, loari
- Asturian: llevar
- Catalan: llevar
- Corsican: levà, livà
- Dalmatian: levur
- English: levy, leaven, levant
- Extremaduran: lleval
- French: lever
- Friulian: levâ, jevâ
- Galician: levar
- Italian: levare
- Ligurian: levâ
- Middle French: lever
- Mirandese: lhebar, libar
- Neapolitan: levà, luvà
- Navarro-Aragonese: leuar, lleuar
- Occitan: levar
- Old French: lever
- Old Spanish: llevar, levar
- Piedmontese: levé
- Portuguese: levar, levantar
- Romanian: lua, luare
- Romansch: livgear
- Sardinian: leài, leare, lebare, levare
- Sassarese: libà
- Sicilian: livari
- Spanish: llevar, levantar
- Venetian: łevar
Etymology 2
From lēvis (“smooth”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈleː.woː/, [ˈɫeː.woː]
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (make smooth, polish): lēvigō
See also
References
- levo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- levo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- levo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
- (ambiguous) men of sound opinions: homines graves (opp. leves)
- to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare
- levo in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian): lijȇvo
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