levante

See also: Levante and levanté

Esperanto

Adverb

levante

1. present adverbial active participle of levi

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.vɑ̃t/

• Audio (Paris):

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Adjective

levante

1. feminine singular of levant

Anagrams

• enlevât

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Interlingua

Participle

levante

1. present participle of levar

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Italian

Etymology

Present participle of levarsi (“to rise”). Corresponds to Latin levāns, levāntem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈvan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: le‧vàn‧te

Adjective

levante (plural levanti)

1. rising

   Synonym: sorgente

   Antonym: calante

Noun

levante m (plural levanti)

1. east

   Synonyms: est, oriente

   Antonym: ponente

2. levanter (easterly wind)

   Synonyms: (obsolete) apeliota, (obsolete, rare) euro, (regional) levantara

See also

• (compass points) punto cardinale;

From Latin
settentrione occidente ponente oriente levante meridione mezzogiorno
From Germanic
nordovest nord nordest ovest est sudovest sud sudest

Participle

levante (plural levanti)

1. present participle of levare

Related terms

• levare
• levantino

References

• levante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• valente, velante

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) lēvante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of lēvāns

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈvɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈvɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈvɐ̃.te/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈvɐ̃.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈvɐ̃.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈbɐ̃.tɨ/ [lɨˈβɐ̃.tɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: le‧van‧te

Noun

levante m (plural levantes)

1. east, orient
2. revolt, rebellion

Verb

levante

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈbante/ [leˈβ̞ãn̪.t̪e]

Etymology 1

From the old present active participle of levar (Old Spanish form of llevar). Corresponds to Latin levāns, levāntem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun.

Noun

levante m (plural levantes)

1. east

   Synonyms: este, oriente

   Antonyms: oeste, poniente, occidente

2. East (wind), levanter

Related terms

• levantar
• leve

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

levante

1. inflection of levantar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “levante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014