leviter

leviter is a Latin form of levis, meaning “light, slight; smooth”. It is the adverb.

Found 187 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 83: … test; iam intelleges, Eruci, certum crimen quam multis suspicionibus coarguatur, tametsi neque omnia dicam et leviter unum quidque tangam. neque enim id facerem, nisi necesse esset, et id erit signi me invitum facere, quod non …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 79.2: … m solis uultum summitteret; sed in senecta sinistro minus uidit; dentes raros et exiguos et scabros; capillum leuiter inflexum et subflauum; supercilia coniuncta; mediocres aures; nasum et a summo eminentiorem et ab imo deducti …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 8.11.5: Leviter armatis dux datus est Myllinas, scriba regis. Hos enim circuitu, quo fallerent hostem, in summum iugum placebat evadere.

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.