levit

See also: Levit

Latin

Verb

lēvit

  1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of linō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lévite.

Noun

levit m (plural leviți)

  1. Levite (member of the Hebrew tribe Levi)

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative levit levitul leviți leviții
genitive-dative levit levitului leviți leviților
vocative levitule leviților

References

  • levit in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Levītēs, from Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́της (Leuī̈́tēs).First attested in the 16th century[1].

Noun

lèvīt m anim (Cyrillic spelling лѐвӣт)

  1. (historical) Levite (member of the Hebrew tribe of clergymen)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “levit”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 548

Further reading

  • levit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Levītēs, from Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́της (Leuī̈́tēs).

Noun

levit c

  1. (historical) Levite (member of the Hebrew tribe of clergymen)

Declension

References