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
- T
Stichus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...confracta duo rem quaerunt peregre, qui paupertatem levent. ibi absunt peregrinantes per triennium. sorores nolunt prodere absentes viros..." - M
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..."