Levites

See also: levites, lévités, levités, and lévites

English

Noun

Levites

1. plural of Levite

Anagrams

• evilest, lievest, veilest, velites

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lēvīta

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λευῑ́της (Leuī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leˈu̯iː.teːs/, [ɫ̪eˈu̯iːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈvi.tes/, [leˈviːt̪es]

Proper noun

Levītēs m (genitive Levītae); first declension

1. a Levite

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	Levītēs	Levītae
genitive	Levītae	Levītārum
dative	Levītae	Levītīs
accusative	Levītēn	Levītās
ablative	Levītē	Levītīs
vocative	Levītē	Levītae

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.