leviano

Meaning

1. flighty, thoughtless
2. frivolous, flippant
3. fickle
4. imprudent, inconsiderate
5. precipitate, rash
6. (Brazil) light, weightless

Concepts

flighty

flyaway

scatterbrained

scatty

head-in-the-clouds

Translations

luchthartig

leichtfertig

leichtsinnig

flippig

frivole

léger

frivol

luchtig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/le.viˈɐ̃.nu/

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish: leviano

Cognate with Spanish: liviano

Cognate with Galician: livián

In summary

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.