levy
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Verb[edit]
levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- to levy a tax
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
- 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
- Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- 1619, Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice:
- The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
Translations[edit]
to impose a tax
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to impose a fine
to confiscate property
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to draft into military service
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to wage war
Noun[edit]
levy (plural levies)
- The act of levying.
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
- The tax, property, or people so levied.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The Irish levies.
- 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).
Translations[edit]
act of levying
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tax, property or people so levied
Etymology 2[edit]
Contraction of elevenpence.
Noun[edit]
levy (plural levies)
- (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.
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
lev- + -y; from the same root as leveä (“wide”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
levy
- plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
- board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
- slab (thick, flat piece of material)
- (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
- (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
- Short for keittolevy (“hotplate”).
Declension[edit]
| 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 | ||
| abessive | levyttä | levyittä | ||
| instructive | — | levyin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms[edit]
- (plate): laatta
- (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)
Hyponyms[edit]
- (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single
Derived terms[edit]
Compounds[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- “levy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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