Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1020.leuis on page 1020
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levis light
levis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means light.
Definitions for levis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
light, easy, slight, trivial
English derivatives:
levity lever levy levee Levant leaven legerdemain alleviate elevate relevant irrelevant relieve
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Light in weight. (b) (of vehicles or vessels) light in construction, (esp. as adapted for swift movement). (c) (as adapted for movement through the air). (d) sit tibi terra ~is (and sim. phrs.), may the earth rest lightly on you (as a wish for the dead).
- 2
Not ponderous in movement, nimble, fleet. (b) (of movements).
- 3
Not weighed down, unburdened, (in compar.) lightened. (b) (fig.).
- 4
(mil., of weapons or equipment) Light. (b) (of troops) equipped with light weapons, light-armed. (c) (of fortifications) lightly constructed; (of garrisons) small, slender.
- 5
(of actions, movements, etc.) Lacking weight or force, gentle, slight, light; (also, of the hand, etc.).
Sentences with levis
Latin to English
Quio res audacter magnas parvasque iocumque eloqueretur sed cura, malaque et bona dictu evomeret si qui vellet tutoque locaret; quorum multa volup ac qaudia clamque palamque, ingenium quoi nulla malum sententia suadet ut faceret facinus levis aut malus.Compare To him he would speak frankly of matters great and small, tell jokes, and, if he so wished, speak well or ill of anything, confident of the other's discretion. With this companion he spent many an agreeable, happy hour, both with others and alone. He had such a disposition that he never deliberately perpetrated a misdeed nor lightly gave offense.
Mutavit mentem populus levis et calet uno scribendi studio; pueri patresque severi fronde comas vincti cenant.Compare The fickle populace has changed its taste, and nowadays is fevered with a universal passion for writing. Boys and grave fathers alike sit at supper with their brows crowned with leaves.
In bello nihil tam leve est quod non magnae interdum rei momentum faciat.Compare In war nothing is so light that it may not carry great weight in the end.
Luctantur pecusque leve in contraris tendunt hac amor hac odium, sed, puto, vincit amor. Odero, si potero; si non, invitus amabo.Compare Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now that - but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.
Romae rus optas; absentem rusticus urbem tollis ad astra levis.Compare At Rome you are all for the country: in the country you extol to the stars the distant town.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 112.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1020.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "levis, leve (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/levis-leve.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 112.levis, leve on page 112
