lever

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French lever.

Noun

lever (plural levers)

1. (rare) A levee.
   • 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:

     We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.

   • 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:

     Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.

Further reading

• “lever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lever”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

References

Anagrams

• Revel, elver, revel

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

lever

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 1

From Old Danish liuær, from Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, cognate with English liver and German Leber. The Germanic word may be an irregular remodelling of the Proto-Indo-European word for "liver", *yókʷr̥, cf. Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) and Latin iecur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

lever c (singular definite leveren, plural indefinite levere)

1. liver

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ,

Verb

lever

1. present of leve

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

lever or levér

1. imperative of levere

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːvər/

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• Hyphenation: le‧ver
• Rhymes: -eːvər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lēvere, from Old Dutch *levara, from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō.

Noun

lever f (plural levers, diminutive levertje n)

1. liver
2. edible animal liver as a dish or culinary ingredient

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lewer
• Berbice Creole Dutch: lefre
• Negerhollands: leber
• → Aukan: lebii
• → Indonesian: lever
• → Saramaccan: lebèn
• → Sranan Tongo: lefre
  • → Caribbean Javanese: léfer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lever

1. inflection of leveren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French lever, from Old French lever, from Latin levāre (“to elevate”), from levis (“light, not heavy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.ve/

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• Homophones: levai, levé, levée, levées, levés, levez

Verb

lever

1. (transitive) to raise, lift

   Antonym: baisser

2. (reflexive) to rise, stand up

   Antonym: s’abaisser

3. (reflexive) (of celestial bodies) To rise, come up

   Antonym: se coucher

   Le Soleil se lève à l’est et se couche à l’ouest. ― The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

4. (reflexive) to get up (out of bed)

   Antonyms: se coucher, s’allonger

   Je me lève, je me lave. ― I get up, I wash.

5. (reflexive, of fog, rain and etc) to clear, lift

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il lève and the third-person singular future indicative il lèvera.

Derived terms

Noun

lever m (plural levers)

1. the act of getting up in the morning

Further reading

• “lever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• lèvre

Hungarian

Etymology

le- +‎ ver

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: le‧ver
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Verb

lever

1. (transitive) to knock down

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• lever in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

lever

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch lever (“liver”), from Middle Dutch lēvere, from Old Dutch *levara, from Proto-Germanic *librō. Doublet of liver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: lè‧vêr

Noun

lèvêr (first-person possessive leverku, second-person possessive levermu, third-person possessive levernya)

1. liver.

   Synonym: hati

Alternative forms

• liver

Further reading

• “lever” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

lēver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lēvō

Middle English

Etymology 1

Comparative of leve (“dear”) of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.

Adverb

lever

1. Rather.

   For him was lever have at his bed's head
   Twenty bookes, clad in black or red,
   . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. —The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

   But lever than this worldés good
   She would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.

Etymology 2

Noun

lever

1. Alternative form of lyvere (“liver”)

Etymology 3

Noun

lever

1. Alternative form of lyvere (“living being”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French lever.

Verb

lever

1. to lift

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: lever

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (lever, supplement)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

lever

Wikipedia ^no

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).

Noun

lever m or f (definite singular leveren or levra, indefinite plural levere or levre or levrer, definite plural leverne or levrene)

1. (anatomy) a liver
2. liver (eaten as food)

Derived terms

• skrumplever

Etymology 2

Verb

lever

1. present tense of leve
2. imperative of levere

References

• “lever” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

lever

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Akin to English liver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleʋːər/

Noun

lever f (definite singular levra, indefinite plural levrar or levrer, definite plural levrane or levrene)

1. (anatomy) a liver
2. liver (eaten as food)

Alternative forms

• (superseded) livr

Derived terms

• skrumplever

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²leːʋɛr/

Verb

lever

1. present of leve

Further reading

• “lever” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lēvāre, present active infinitive of lēvō.

Verb

lever

1. to lift (up)
2. (reflexive, se lever) to get up (get out of bed)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem liev distinct from the unstressed stem lev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: lever
  • French: lever

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz.

Noun

lēver m

1. loaf, bread

Declension

acc_sg=lēf
gen_sg=lēfs
gen_sg_d=lēfsins

Descendants

• Swedish: lev

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

lever

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).

Noun

lever c

1. (anatomy) a liver

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• levra (“clot, coagulate”)

Etymology 2

Verb

lever

1. present indicative of leva

References

• lever in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lever in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• lever in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)