levator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin levator. Doublet of lever.

Noun

levator (plural levators or levatores)

1. (anatomy) lifting muscle
2. (anatomy, specifically) The levator palpebrae superioris muscle.

Antonyms

• depressor

Anagrams

• Tervola, love rat

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) levātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of levō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of levō

References

• “levator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• levator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• levator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.