different between levant vs levanter

English

Etymology 1

Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??vænt/

Noun

levant (plural levants)

1. A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

Verb

levant (third-person singular simple present levants, present participle levanting, simple past and past participle levanted)

1. To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:

     In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.

Translations

Etymology 2

From French levant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?nt/

Adjective

levant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Rising, of an animal.
2. (law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
3. (poetic) Eastern.

Anagrams

• -valent, valent, vental

French

Etymology

Participle adjective of lever (“to raise”). Corresponds to Latin lev?ns, lev?ntem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun; compare Italian levante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.v??/

Adjective

levant (feminine singular levante, masculine plural levants, feminine plural levantes)

1. (of the moon, the sun, etc.) rising

Antonyms

• couchant

Noun

levant m (uncountable)

1. the east, the orient

   Synonym: orient

   Antonyms: ponant, occident

Verb

levant

1. present participle of lever

Derived terms

• Levant

Further reading

• “levant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lavent, valent

Latin

Verb

levant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lev?

English

Etymology

Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), figuratively: to flee eastward, literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France.

Noun

levanter (plural levanters)

1. An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
2. One who levants, or absconds to avoid paying a debt.

Synonyms

• (wind): Levant

Translations

Further reading

• Levant (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• relevant