Levites

Levites

See also: levites, lévités, levités, and lévites

English

Noun

Levites

  1. plural of Levite

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́ς (Leuī̈́s)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)
Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́της (Leuī̈́tēs)bor.
Latin Lēvītēs

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λευῑ̈́της (Leuī̈́tēs).

    Pronunciation

    Proper noun

    Lēvītēs m (genitive Lēvītae); first declension

    1. a Levite

    Declension

    First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

    singular plural
    nominative Lēvītēs Lēvītae
    genitive Lēvītae Lēvītārum
    dative Lēvītae Lēvītīs
    accusative Lēvītēn Lēvītās
    ablative Lēvītē Lēvītīs
    vocative Lēvītē Lēvītae

    References

    • “Levites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “Levites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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