leviano

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish leviano (cf. modern Spanish liviano), from Vulgar Latin *levianus. Old Portuguese had the inherited form livão, showing a native treatment of intervocalic Latin /n/. Compare Galician livián.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.viˈɐ̃.nu/ [le.vɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /leˈvjɐ̃.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.viˈɐ̃.nu/ [le.vɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /leˈvjɐ̃.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.viˈɐ.no/ [le.vɪˈɐ.no], (faster pronunciation) /leˈvjɐ.no/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈvjɐ.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈvjɐ.nu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈbja.nu/ [lɨˈβja.nu]

• Hyphenation: le‧vi‧a‧no

Adjective

leviano (feminine leviana, masculine plural levianos, feminine plural levianas)

1. flighty, thoughtless
2. frivolous, flippant
3. fickle
4. imprudent, inconsiderate
5. precipitate, rash

   Synonyms: irrefletido, precipitado, imprudente, insensato, leve

6. (Brazil) light, weightless

Related terms

• levianamente

References

• LUFT, Celso Pedro. Dicionário Luft. São Paulo: Ática, 2000. →ISBN ()
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “leve”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 637

Further reading

• “leviano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025