levy

See also: Levy, Lévy, and levý

English

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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 enrolment, 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
• Italian: imporre (it)
• Japanese: 課す (かす, kasu)
• Polish: ściągać (pl), pobierać (pl)

• Romanian: impozita (ro), taxa (ro)
• Russian: взима́ть (ru) (vzimátʹ)

to impose a fine

• Finnish: sakottaa (fi)
• Japanese: 科す (かす, kasu)

• Spanish: multar

to confiscate property

• Finnish: takavarikoida (fi), ulosmitata, ulosottaa

• Japanese: 差し押さえる (さしおさえる, sashiosaeru)

to draft into military service

• Finnish: ottaa sotaväkeen, kutsua palvelukseen
• Japanese: 徴兵する (ちょうへいする, chōhei suru)
• Maori: karawhiu

• Portuguese: convocar (pt) f
• Romanian: recruta (ro)
• Spanish: reclutar

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
• Finnish: veronkanto, verotus (fi) (of tax); sakotus (of fine); takavarikko (fi), ulosotto (fi) (of confiscation); sotaväenotto, kutsunnat pl (of military service);
• French: impôt (fr), prélèvement (fr), taxe (fr)

• 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)
• Swedish: uttaxering
• Welsh: treth (cy) f

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

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Finnish

Etymology

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

Noun

levy

1. A thin, flat object of uniform thickness; a plate. (A thick plate may also be called laatta).
2. A board, as a flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material.
3. A slab, as a thick, flat piece of material.
4. A disk for storing data.
5. A recording of a piece of music made on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved. If there's a need to be specific, a recording may also be called levytys.

Declension

Inflection of levy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

		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		levylleˣ	levyilleˣ
essive		levynä	levyinä
translative		levyksi	levyiksi
instructive		—	levyin
abessive		levyttä	levyittä
comitative		—	levyineen

Related terms

• levytys
• levyttää

Synonyms

• (musical recording): savikiekko, älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single, vinyyli, äänilevy

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. ISBN 951-0-27108-X.

Anagrams

• elvy