levi

See also: Levi, leví, Leví, levî, Lévi, and Lê-vi

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian levare (“to lift”) and Latin levō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlevi/

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• Rhymes: -evi
• Hyphenation: le‧vi

Verb

levi (present levas, past levis, future levos, conditional levus, volitive levu)

1. to lift, to raise
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio‎:

     ili sin levis en longa linio el la maro

     they lifted themselves in a long line out of the sea

Conjugation

Conjugation of levi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		levas		levis		levos
active participle		levanta	levantaj	levinta	levintaj	levonta	levontaj
	acc.	levantan	levantajn	levintan	levintajn	levontan	levontajn
passive participle		levata	levataj	levita	levitaj	levota	levotaj
	acc.	levatan	levatajn	levitan	levitajn	levotan	levotajn
nominal active participle		levanto	levantoj	levinto	levintoj	levonto	levontoj
	acc.	levanton	levantojn	levinton	levintojn	levonton	levontojn
nominal passive participle		levato	levatoj	levito	levitoj	levoto	levotoj
	acc.	levaton	levatojn	leviton	levitojn	levoton	levotojn
adverbial active participle		levante		levinte		levonte
adverbial passive participle		levate		levite		levote
		infinitive	levi	imperative	levu	conditional	levus

Derived terms

• leviĝi (“to rise up”)
• levstango (“crowbar”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/
• Rhymes: -ɛvi
• Hyphenation: lè‧vi

Verb

levi

1. inflection of levare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• live, veli, vile

Latin

Adjective

levī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of levis

References

• "levi", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “levi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lijȇvī (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěvъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lêːʋiː/
• Hyphenation: le‧vi

Adjective

lȇvī (Cyrillic spelling ле̑вӣ) (Ekavian)

1. left
2. left-wing
3. (heraldry) sinister

Declension

Declension of levi

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		levi	leva	levo
genitive		levog(a)	leve	levog(a)
dative		levom(u/e)	levoj	levom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	levi levog(a)	levu	levo
vocative		levi	leva	levo
locative		levom(e/u)	levoj	levom(e/u)
instrumental		levim	levom	levim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		levi	leve	leva
genitive		levih	levih	levih
dative		levim(a)	levim(a)	levim(a)
accusative		leve	leve	leva
vocative		levi	leve	leva
locative		levim(a)	levim(a)	levim(a)
instrumental		levim(a)	levim(a)	levim(a)