Levites

See also: levites, lévités, levités, and lévites

English

Noun

Levites

1. plural of Levite

Anagrams

• evilest, lievest, veilest, velites

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lēvīta

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́της (Leuī̈́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeːˈwiː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈviː.tes]

Proper noun

Lēvītēs m (genitive Lēvītae); first declension

1. a Levite

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	Lēvītēs	Lēvītae
genitive	Lēvītae	Lēvītārum
dative	Lēvītae	Lēvītīs
accusative	Lēvītēn	Lēvītās
ablative	Lēvītē	Lēvītīs
vocative	Lēvītē	Lēvītae

References

• “Levites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Levites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.