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levi

levi is a Latin form of levis, meaning “light, slight; smooth”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular neuter adjective.

Found 271 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.36.1: Caesar ex eo loco quintis castris Gergoviam pervenit equestrique eo die proelio levi facto perspecto urbis situ, quae posita in altissimo monte omnes aditus difficiles habebat, de expugnatione d …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 89: … gnum atque valens nomine Capsa, cuius conditor Hercules Libys memorabatur. Eius ciues apud Iugurtham immunes, leui imperio et ob ea fidelissimi habebantur, muniti aduersum hostis non moenibus modo et armis atque viris, verum …

All forms of levis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.