levente
See also: Levente
Hungarian
editEtymology
editLoanword via Serbo-Croatian lèvēnta(sh). Compare Ottoman Turkish لوند (lävänd, levend, levent, “volunteer sailor”) and Turkish levent,[1] as well as Greek λεβέντης (levéntis) and Bulgarian левент (levent)(bg).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlevente (plural leventék)
- (historical) warrior, fighter, knight (in the Middle Ages) [from 1568]
- (dated) a strapping youth (young man)
- Synonym: dalia
- (historical) a member of a paramilitary youth organization in Hungary between 1920 and 1945
- (historical, informal) the institution where the training of this paramilitary youth organization took place; cf. leventemozgalom
Declension
editInflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | levente | leventék |
accusative | leventét | leventéket |
dative | leventének | leventéknek |
instrumental | leventével | leventékkel |
causal-final | leventéért | leventékért |
translative | leventévé | leventékké |
terminative | leventéig | leventékig |
essive-formal | leventeként | leventékként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | leventében | leventékben |
superessive | leventén | leventéken |
adessive | leventénél | leventéknél |
illative | leventébe | leventékbe |
sublative | leventére | leventékre |
allative | leventéhez | leventékhez |
elative | leventéből | leventékből |
delative | leventéről | leventékről |
ablative | leventétől | leventéktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
leventéé | leventéké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
leventééi | leventékéi |
Possessive forms of levente | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | leventém | leventéim |
2nd person sing. | leventéd | leventéid |
3rd person sing. | leventéje | leventéi |
1st person plural | leventénk | leventéink |
2nd person plural | leventétek | leventéitek |
3rd person plural | leventéjük | leventéik |
See also
editReferences
editFurther reading
edit- levente 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
- Levent#Etymology in Wikipedia
- Levente (organization) in Wikipedia