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levante

See also: Levante and levanté

Esperanto

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Adverb

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levante

  1. present adverbial active participle of levi

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lə.vɑ̃t/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Adjective

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levante

  1. feminine singular of levant

Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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levante

  1. inflection of levantar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

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Participle

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levante

  1. present participle of levar

Italian

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Etymology

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Present participle of levarsi (“to rise”). Corresponds to Latin levantem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /leˈvan.te/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: le‧vàn‧te

Adjective

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levante (plural levanti)

  1. rising
    Synonym: sorgente
    Antonym: calante

Noun

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levante m (plural levanti)

  1. east
    Synonyms: est, oriente
    Antonym: ponente
  2. levanter (easterly wind)
    Synonyms: (obsolete) apeliota, (obsolete, rare) euro, (regional) levantara

Derived terms

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From Latin
settentrione
occidente
ponente 		  oriente
levante
meridione
mezzogiorno
From Germanic
nordovest nord nordest
ovest   est
sudovest sud sudest

Participle

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levante (plural levanti)

  1. present participle of levare
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Further reading

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  • levante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Participle

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lēvante

  1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of lēvāns

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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levante m (plural levantes)

  1. east, orient
  2. revolt, rebellion

Etymology 2

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Verb

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levante

  1. inflection of levantar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /leˈbante/ [leˈβ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Syllabification: le‧van‧te

Etymology 1

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From the old present active participle of levar (Old Spanish form of llevar). Corresponds to Latin levantem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun.

Noun

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levante m (plural levantes)

  1. east
    Synonyms: este, oriente
    Antonyms: oeste, poniente, occidente
  2. East (wind), levanter
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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levante

  1. inflection of levantar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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