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Latin
Etymology
From levis + -ter.
Pronunciation
Adverb
leviter (comparative levius, superlative levissimē)
- lightly, not heavily
- slightly, somewhat
- easily
References
- “leviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “leviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- leviter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
- to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to hint vaguely at a thing: leviter significare aliquid
Swedish
Noun
leviter
- indefinite plural of levit