levy

See also: Levy, Lévy, and levý

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

   to levy a tax

2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
   • Shakespeare

     If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
   • Fuller

     Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.

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7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

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Translations

to impose a tax

• Finnish: verottaa (fi), määrätä vero
• French: lever (fr)
• German: erheben (de)
• Hungarian: kivet (hu)
• Italian: imporre (it)
• Japanese: 課す (ja) (かす, kasu)
• Maori: whakaeke

• Polish: ściągać (pl), pobierać (pl)
• Romanian: impozita (ro), taxa (ro)
• Russian: взима́ть (ru) (vzimátʹ)
• Slovak: vyrúbiť
• Slovene: obdavčevati
• Turkish: vergi toplamak, tarhetmek

to impose a fine

• Finnish: sakottaa (fi)
• German: erheben (de)
• Japanese: 科す (ja) (かす, kasu)

• Slovak: vyrúbiť
• Spanish: multar (es)
• Turkish: ceza almak (tr)

to confiscate property

• Finnish: takavarikoida (fi), ulosmitata, ulosottaa
• German: einziehen (de), In Beschlag nehmen

• Japanese: 差し押さえる (さしおさえる, sashiosaeru)
• Turkish: haczetmek (tr), el koymak (tr)

to draft into military service

• Finnish: ottaa sotaväkeen, kutsua palvelukseen
• German: einziehen (de)
• Japanese: 徴兵する (ja) (ちょうへいする, chōhei suru)
• Maori: karawhiu
• Portuguese: convocar (pt) f

• Romanian: recruta (ro)
• Slovak: povolať
• Spanish: reclutar (es)
• Turkish: askere almak

to wage war

• Finnish: sotia (fi), käydä sotaa

• Japanese: 開戦する (かいせんする, kaisen suru)

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.
   • Thirlwall

     A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.
   • Macaulay

     The Irish levies.

Translations

act of levying

• Catalan: lleva (ca) f
• Crimean Tatar: alım
• Finnish: veronkanto (fi), verotus (fi) (of tax); sakotus (fi) (of fine); takavarikko (fi), ulosotto (fi) (of confiscation); sotaväenotto, kutsunnat (fi) pl (of military service);
• French: impôt (fr), prélèvement (fr), taxe (fr)
• Malay: levi
• Maori: karawhiunga (referring to an army)

• Romanian: impozitare (ro) f, taxare (ro) m
• Russian: сбор (ru) m (sbor), взима́ние (ru) n (vzimánije), обложе́ние (ru) n (obložénije)
• Slovene: dajatev f
• Swedish: uttaxering
• Turkish: icra (tr), haciz (tr)
• Welsh: treth (cy) f

tax, property or people so levied

• German: Umlage (de)

Etymology 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

See also

• levee
• Levi

Anagrams

• vley

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Finnish

Etymology

Cognate to leveä (“wide”) and levittää (“to spread”).

Noun

levy

1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
4. disk (device for storing data)
5. recording (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)

Declension

Inflection of levy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		levy	levyt
genitive		levyn	levyjen
partitive		levyä	levyjä
illative		levyyn	levyihin
		singular	plural
nominative		levy	levyt
accusative	nom.	levy	levyt
	gen.	levyn
genitive		levyn	levyjen
partitive		levyä	levyjä
inessive		levyssä	levyissä
elative		levystä	levyistä
illative		levyyn	levyihin
adessive		levyllä	levyillä
ablative		levyltä	levyiltä
allative		levylle	levyille
essive		levynä	levyinä
translative		levyksi	levyiksi
instructive		—	levyin
abessive		levyttä	levyittä
comitative		—	levyineen

Synonyms

• (plate): laatta
• (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)

Hyponyms

• (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single

Derived terms

• levyttää
• levytys

Compounds

• aaltolevy
• akustiikkalevy
• alkiolevy
• aluslevy
• asbestilevy
• asteikkolevy
• astelevy
• emolevy
• gramofonilevy
• jarrulevy
• kiintolevy
• kipsilevy
• koekytkentälevy
• kosketuslevy
• kovalevy
• kuitulevy
• kytkinlevy
• lastulevy
• levyasema
• levyautomaatti
• levykuva
• levylautanen
• levypallo
• levytanko
• levy-yhtiö
• LP-levy
• ohutlevy
• ohkolevy
• piirilevy
• pitkäsoittolevy
• platinalevy
• suklaalevy
• suuntimalevy
• taustalevy
• vinyylilevy
• välilevy
• äänilevy

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.

Anagrams

• elvy