leve

Meaning

Frequency

B1
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

  1. (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
  2. (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
  3. (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
  4. (figuratively,transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
  5. (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
  6. (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
  7. (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
  8. (euphemistic,transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
  9. (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
  10. (transitive) to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one)
  11. (informal,intransitive,transitive) to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one)
  12. (transitive) to take (to require a given amount of time)
  13. (transitive) to contain; to take (to have as an ingredient)
  14. (transitive) to take (to have capacity for)
  15. (transitive) to carry (to have in one’s immediate possession)
  16. (intransitive) to lead to (to have as its destination)
  17. (figuratively,transitive) to lead (someone) (to produce or tend to produce a given result)
  18. (pronominal) to let oneself be overwhelmed

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