levio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From levis (“light (in weight)”) + -iō (causative verb-forming suffix). Frequently used by the fourth-century writer Oribasius. Cf. the more common alleviō.
Verb[edit]
leviō (present infinitive leviāre, perfect active leviāvī, supine leviātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
Conjugation[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “levio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lĕviare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 286