levatura
Interlingua
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish levadura, Portuguese levedura and French levure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.vaˈtu.ra/
Noun
levatura (uncountable)
- yeast
- 1960, Frank Ungar, "Dehydrogenases hydroxysteroide in hepate de mammiferos", translation of "Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases in mammalian liver", session VIII b, No. 365, First International Congress of Endocrinology Copenhagen, page 728, English taken from original.
- Dehydrogenase alcoholic obtenite ab levatura esseva inactive.
- Alcohol dehydrogenase obtained from yeast was inactive.
- 1960, Frank Ungar, "Dehydrogenases hydroxysteroide in hepate de mammiferos", translation of "Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases in mammalian liver", session VIII b, No. 365, First International Congress of Endocrinology Copenhagen, page 728, English taken from original.
Italian
Etymology
From levare + -tura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.vaˈtu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: le‧va‧tù‧ra
Noun
levatura f (plural levature)
- intellect
- 2002, Roberto Baravalle, Anni strappati, page 48.
- Il nostro mestiere è un'arte, riservata a persone di levatura superiore. Intendo dire levatura intellettuale, ovviamente.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 2002, Roberto Baravalle, Anni strappati, page 48.
Anagrams
- lavature, urlavate, valutare, valuterà, velatura
Latin
Participle
levātūra
- inflection of levātūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
levātūrā
- ablative feminine singular of levātūrus
References
- levatura 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)