leve
Meaning
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- (comparable,feminine,masculine) light (of low weight; not heavy)
- (comparable,feminine,masculine) gentle, light (having little force)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
le‧ve
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɛ.vi/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese leve, from Latin levis, from Proto-Italic *leɣwis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”). Doublet of léu.
New
levar
- (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- (figuratively,transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
- (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
- (euphemistic,transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
- (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
- (transitive) to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one)
- (informal,intransitive,transitive) to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one)
- (transitive) to take (to require a given amount of time)
- (transitive) to contain; to take (to have as an ingredient)
- (transitive) to take (to have capacity for)
- (transitive) to carry (to have in one’s immediate possession)
- (intransitive) to lead to (to have as its destination)
- (figuratively,transitive) to lead (someone) (to produce or tend to produce a given result)
- (pronominal) to let oneself be overwhelmed
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