levator
Dictionary entries
- Entry →levo, levare, levavi, levatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lift/raise/hold up; support; erect, set up; lift off, remove (load); comfort;; undo, take off; release, rid; free from (worry/expense); refresh/restore;; lighten, lessen, relieve; reduce in force/potency; bring down (cost/prices);; alleviate (condition); make smooth, polish; free from hair, depilate;
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...calumniatur verba nec vultus; quidquid accidit benigne interpretando levat. Non offensae potius quam offici meminit; quantum potest..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...habet sui quisque corporis vitia. Itaque alius vomitu levat stomachum, alius frequenti cibo fulcit, alius interposito ieiunio corpus..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...saltus vel ille qui corpus in altum levat vel ille qui in longum mittit vel ille..."de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...minus gravis nota est, quam turba damnationum levat, et severitas, quod maximum remedium habet, adsiduitate amittit auctoritatem..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Peior hac homoeideia; quae nulla varietatis gratia levat taedium atque est tota coloris unius, qua maxime deprehenditur carens..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...opportuna reficit animos et undecumque petita iudicis voluptas levat taedium. Non inutilis etiam est ratio occupandi quae videntur..."XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...trepidatione contineas, si patitur deprehensus quisque quod maluit. levat omnes cruciatus, omnem dolorem praeparata mentem conposuisse patientia. fallitur..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...pedes, truditur et digitis pannucea mentula lassis nec levat extinctum sollicitata caput. Quid miseros frustra cunnos culosque lacessis..."