levent
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;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Stichus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...confracta duo rem quaerunt peregre, qui paupertatem levent. ibi absunt peregrinantes per triennium. sorores nolunt prodere absentes viros..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quae varietate taedium effugiant et mutationibus animum levent, ne in eundem casum, similem compositionem, pares elocutionum tractus incidamus..."