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levis

Pronunciation: [ˈɫɛ.wɪs]

“levis” is a Latin word. Its 12 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. light, not heavy
  2. easy to digest
  3. quick, swift, fleet, nimble, rapid
  4. slight, trifling, small
  5. light, trivial, trifling, unimportant, inconsiderable, slight, little, petty, easy, dispensable
  6. light, light-minded, capricious, fickle, inconstant, unreliable, false
  7. mild, gentle, pleasant
  8. slippery
  9. without hair, beardless
  10. youthful, delicate, beautiful; finely dressed, spruce, effeminate
  11. rubbed smooth, ground down, softened, soft
  12. (of speech) smooth, flowing

In Latin

  1. Parvi ponderis.
  2. Celer, velox.
  3. non asper.
  4. non scaber.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *leɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰus, from *h₁lengʷʰ- (“lightweight”). The original PIE u-stem adjective was remade into a Latin i-stem, perhaps due to contamination from brevis (“short”), though De Vaan suggests that such a development is typical for Latin regardless. Influence from brevis may also explain the lack of a nasal in the Latin term, though De Vaan provides a…

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