levitate

English

Etymology

Latin levō (“I elevate, I lift up”), from levis (“light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvɪteɪt/

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Verb

levitate (third-person singular simple present levitates, present participle levitating, simple past and past participle levitated)

1. (transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.

   The magician levitated the woman.

2. (intransitive) To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.

   The guru claimed that he could levitate.

Related terms

• levitation

Translations

to cause to rise in the air and float

• Bulgarian: вдигам във въздуха (vdigam vǎv vǎzduha)
• Finnish: leijuttaa, saada levitoimaan
• German: schweben lassen, levitieren (de)
• Latin: levationem ago
• Portuguese: levitar (pt)

to be suspend in the air

• Catalan: levitar (ca)
• Czech: vznášet se impf, levitovat
• Esperanto: levitacii
• Finnish: leijua (fi), levitoida (fi)
• German: schweben (de)
• Polish: lewitować (pl)
• Portuguese: levitar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лѐбдјети, левитирати

  Roman: lèbdjeti (sh), ^{(please verify)} levitírati (sh)

• Spanish: levitar (es)
• Swedish: levitera

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} doen opstijgen en zweven
• French: ^{(please verify)} léviter (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} schweben (de)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} levitare

Italian

Verb

levitate

1. inflection of levitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• elettiva, velettai

Latin

Noun

levitāte f

1. ablative singular of levitās

Spanish

Verb

levitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of levitar combined with te