different between levee vs levi

English

Alternative forms

• levée (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?vi/, /?l?v.e?/
• Rhymes: -?vi, -?ve?
• Homophone: levy (some pronunciations only)
• (US) enPR: lev'i, IPA^(key): /?l?vi/, /l??vi/, /l??ve?/
• Rhymes: -?vi
• Homophones: levy, Levy

Etymology 1

From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).

Noun

levee (plural levees)

1. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
2. (US) The steep bank of a river.
3. (US) The border of an irrigated field.
4. (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.

Synonyms

• (embankment): dike, floodwall

Translations

Verb

levee (third-person singular simple present levees, present participle leveeing, simple past and past participle leveed)

1. (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.

   to levee a river

Translations

Etymology 2

From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”).

Noun

levee (plural levees)

1. (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
   • c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols

     And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at the sun's levee

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 414:

     The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox […]

2. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

Verb

levee (third-person singular simple present levees, present participle leveeing, simple past and past participle leveed)

1. (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     He levees all the great.

Anagrams

• eleve, leeve

Old French

Verb

levee

1. feminine singular of the past participle of lever

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian levare (“to lift”) and Latin lev?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?levi/
• Hyphenation: le?vi

Verb

levi (present levas, past levis, future levos, conditional levus, volitive levu)

1. to lift, to raise
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio, Project Gutenberg transcription

     ili sin levis en longa linio el la maro

     they lifted themselves in a long line out of the sea

Conjugation

Derived terms

• levi?i (“to rise up”)
• levstango (“crowbar”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

levi

1. second-person singular present of levare
2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of levare
3. third-person singular imperative of levare

Anagrams

• live
• veli
• vile

Latin

Adjective

lev?

1. dative masculine singular of levis
2. dative feminine singular of levis
3. dative neuter singular of levis
4. ablative masculine singular of levis
5. ablative feminine singular of levis
6. ablative neuter singular of levis

References

• levi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• levi in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lij?v? (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lê??i?/
• Hyphenation: le?vi

Adjective

l?v? (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. left
2. left-wing
3. (heraldry) sinister

Declension