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leviore

leviore is a Latin form of levis, meaning “light, slight; smooth”. It is the ablative singular comparative adjective.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.4.10: nam maiore commisso delicto igni atque omnibus tormentis necat, leviore de causa auribus desectis aut singulis effossis oculis domum remittit, ut sint reliquis documento et magnitudine poenae perterreant alios.

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 89.1: Ne Graecarum quidem disciplinarum leuiore studio tenebatur. in quibus et ipsis praestabat largiter magistro dicendi usus Apollodoro Pergameno, quem iam …

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.