levans
English
Noun
levans
- plural of levan
Anagrams
- Valens, elvans, navels, snavel
Latin
Etymology 1
Present active participle of levō (“lift, raise”).
Participle
levāns (genitive levantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- lifting, raising
- lightening, making light
- relieving, easing, comforting
- mitigating, alleviating
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | levāns | levantēs | levantia | ||
| Genitive | levantis | levantium | |||
| Dative | levantī | levantibus | |||
| Accusative | levantem | levāns | levantēs levantīs | levantia | |
| Ablative | levante levantī1 | levantibus | |||
| Vocative | levāns | levantēs | levantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
- Galician: levante
- Istriot: Livante
- Italian: levante
- Old French: levant
- French: levant, Levant
- → English: Levant
- Portuguese: levante
- Sicilian: livanti
- Spanish: levante
Etymology 2
Present active participle of lēvō (“smooth, polish”).
Participle
lēvāns (genitive lēvantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- smoothing, polishing
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lēvāns | lēvantēs | lēvantia | ||
| Genitive | lēvantis | lēvantium | |||
| Dative | lēvantī | lēvantibus | |||
| Accusative | lēvantem | lēvāns | lēvantēs lēvantīs | lēvantia | |
| Ablative | lēvante lēvantī1 | lēvantibus | |||
| Vocative | lēvāns | lēvantēs | lēvantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- levans in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)