relevo

From re- +‎ levō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.ɫɛ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.le.vo]

relevō (present infinitive relevāre, perfect active relevāvī, supine relevātum); first conjugation

1. to raise, lift up
2. to lighten
3. to relieve
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.31:

     Ut saepe hominēs aegrī morbō gravī cum aestū febrīque iactantur, sī aquam gelidam bibērunt, prīmō relevārī videntur, deinde multō gravius vehementiusque afflīctantur; sīc hic morbus, quī est in rē pūblicā, relevātus istīus poenā vehementius reliquīs vīvīs ingravēscet.

     As often when people gravely sick with illness are tormented by heat and fever, if they have drank cold water, at first they seem to be relieved, [yet] afterward are afflicted much more seriously and more violently; thus this illness, which is in the Republic, [were it to be] relieved by the punishment of that [man], will grow worse more violently with the remaining [conspirators] [still] alive.

4. to alleviate, mitigate, lessen, diminish, assuage

• relevāmen
• relevātiō

• “relevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “relevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “relevo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Deverbal from relevar.

relevo m (plural relevos)

1. relief; relievo (artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background)
2. relief (difference of elevations on a surface)
3. importance; relevance

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

relevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of relevar

• “relevo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “relevo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /reˈlebo/ [reˈle.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ebo
• Syllabification: re‧le‧vo

Deverbal from relevar.

relevo m (plural relevos)

1. relief (from duty, watch)
2. (athletics) relay
3. changeover (in a relay race)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

relevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of relevar

• “relevo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025