levet

English

Etymology

Compare French lever (to raise).

Noun

levet (plural levets)

  1. (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for levet in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛvɛt]
  • Hyphenation: le‧vet

Etymology 1

le- + vet

Verb

levet

  1. (transitive, somewhat literary) to take off (clothes or shoes)
    Synonym: levesz
  2. (transitive, somewhat literary) to throw off
    Synonym: ledob
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From the lev- stem of + -et (accusative suffix).

Alternative forms

Noun

levet

  1. accusative singular of

Latin

Verb

lēvet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of lēvō
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