leveret

English

Etymology

From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/, /ˈlɛvɹɪt/

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Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

1. A young hare less than one year old.

   Synonym: hareling

   • 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi‎^[1], act V, scene 5:

     […] Shall I die like a leveret,
     Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
     I am slain!

   • 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller‎^[2], London: H. Herringman:

     Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
     Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
     Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
     Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;

   • 1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer‎^[3], Book 10:

     As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
     Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
     Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
     And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
     So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
     So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.

   • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.

Translations

a young hare

• Asturian: llebratu (ast)
• Basque: erbikume
• Belarusian: зайчаня́ n (zajčanjá), зайчанё n (zajčanjó)
• Bulgarian: за́йче (bg) n (zájče)
• Catalan: llebretó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小兔 (xiǎotù), 小兔子 (xiǎotùzi), 兔崽 (tù zǎi)

• Classical Nahuatl: cihtepitōn, cihtōntli
• Czech: mladý zajíc m, zajíček (cs) m
• Danish: harekilling c, killing (da) c (rare)
• Dutch: haasje (nl) n
• Finnish: jäniksenpoika
• French: levraut (fr) m, levreteau (fr) m (unweaned)
• German: Häschen (de) n, Häslein (de) n
• Greek: λαγουδάκι (el) n (lagoudáki)
• Irish: patachán m
• Italian: leprotto (it) m
• Japanese: 子ウサギ (ko-usagi), 子兔 (こうさぎ, ko-usagi)
• Kazakh: көжек (köjek)
• Korean: 새끼 토끼 (saekki tokki), 아기 토끼 (agi tokki)
• Latvian: zaķēns m
• Macedonian: зајче n (zajče)
• Mongolian: бүжин (büžin)
• Polish: zajączek (pl) m
• Portuguese: lebroto (pt) m
• Romanian: iepuraș (ro)
• Romansch: lieuret m
• Russian: зайчо́нок (ru) m (zajčónok), за́йчик (ru) m (zájčik)
• Slovak: zajačik m
• Slovene: zajček m
• Spanish: lebrato (es) m
• Swedish: harunge (sv) c, unghare c, harpalt (sv) c
• Turkmen: çebşek
• Ukrainian: зайченя́ n (zajčenjá), зайча́ n (zajčá), зайченя́тко n (zajčenjátko)
• Vietnamese: thỏ con, con thỏ con
• Volapük: (♂♀) lievül, (♂) hilievül, (♀) jilievül
• Welsh: lefren f, llefren f

See also

• rabbitling

Middle English

Alternative forms

• leverette

Etymology

From Old French leveret. First attested a1425.

Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

1. a young hare

Descendants

• English: leveret

References

• “leveret(te, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

From lievre (“hare”) +‎ -et (diminutive ending). Attested ca. mid–13th c.

Pronunciation

• (late) IPA^(key): /lɛvᵊˈrɛt/

Noun

leveret oblique singular, m (oblique plural leverez or leveretz, nominative singular leverez or leveretz, nominative plural leveret)

1. a young hare
2. the skin of a hare

Descendants

• → Middle English: leveret, leverette
  • English: leveret

References

• leveret on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub