leveret
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/, /ˈlɛvɹɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]leveret (plural leverets)
- A young hare less than one year old.
- Synonym: hareling
- 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi[1], act V, scene 5:
- […] Shall I die like a leveret,
Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
I am slain!
- 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller[2], London: H. Herringman:
- Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
- 1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer[3], Book 10:
- As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.
- 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.
Translations
[edit]a young hare
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See also
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French leveret. First attested a1425.
Noun
[edit]leveret (plural leverets)
- a young hare
Descendants
[edit]- English: leveret
References
[edit]- “leveret(te, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lievre (“hare”) + -et (diminutive ending). Attested ca. mid–13th c.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leveret oblique singular, m (oblique plural leverez or leveretz, nominative singular leverez or leveretz, nominative plural leveret)
- a young hare
- the skin of a hare
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- leveret on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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