leviter
See also: léviter
Latin
Etymology
From levis + -ter.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.u̯i.ter/, [ˈɫ̪eu̯ɪt̪ɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.vi.ter/, [ˈlɛːvit̪er]
Adverb
leviter (comparative levius, superlative levissimē)
- lightly, not heavily
- slightly, somewhat
- easily
Related terms
- levis
- levitās
- levō
References
- “leviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “leviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- leviter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
- to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to hint vaguely at a thing: leviter significare aliquid
- to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
Swedish
Noun
leviter
- indefinite plural of levit.