levitas

See also: levitás and lévitas

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰus

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Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.

Proto-Italic *leɣʷis

Latin levis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin levitās

From levis + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛ.wɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.vi.tas]

Noun

levitās f (genitive levitātis); third declension

1. levity; lightness
2. fickleness; inconstancy; disloyalty

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	levitās	levitātēs
genitive	levitātis	levitātum
dative	levitātī	levitātibus
accusative	levitātem	levitātēs
ablative	levitāte	levitātibus
vocative	levitās	levitātēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: levitat
• → English: levity ⇒ levitate
  • → French: léviter
  • → Italian: levitare
  • → Portuguese: levitar
  • → Spanish: levitar

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Latin lēvis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin lēvitās

From lēvis + -tās.

Alternative forms

• laevitās

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeː.wɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.vi.tas]

Noun

lēvitās f (genitive lēvitātis); third declension

1. smoothness
2. fluency (in a language)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lēvitās	lēvitātēs
genitive	lēvitātis	lēvitātum
dative	lēvitātī	lēvitātibus
accusative	lēvitātem	lēvitātēs
ablative	lēvitāte	lēvitātibus
vocative	lēvitās	lēvitātēs

References

• “levitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “levitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “levitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • inconsistency; changeability: mobilitas et levitas animi
    

Portuguese

Verb

levitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of levitar

Spanish

Noun

levitas f pl

1. plural of levita

Verb

levitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of levitar