different between levier vs lever
levier
English
Etymology
levy +? -er (“agent suffix”)
Noun
levier (plural leviers)
- One who levies.
Anagrams
- eviler, liever, relive, revile, veiler
French
Etymology
From verb lever.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?.vje/
Noun
levier m (plural leviers)
- lever
Further reading
- “levier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- lièvre
- livrée, réveil
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lever
English
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?li?.v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?li?.v?/,
- Hyphenation: lever
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?.v?/, /?li?.v?/
- Hyphenation: le?ver, Hyphenation: lev?er
- Rhymes: -?v?(?), -i?v?(?)
- Homophones: leaver, Lever (for the pronunciation /?li?v?(?)/)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin lev?tor (“a lifter”), from lev? (“to raise”); see levant. Compare alleviate, elevate, leaven.
Noun
lever (plural levers)
- (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:
- My lord, I brained him with a lever my neighbour lent me, and he stood by and cried, ‘Strike home, old boy!’
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:
- (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
Translations
Verb
lever (third-person singular simple present levers, present participle levering, simple past and past participle levered)
- (transitive) To move with a lever.
- (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1,
- Suddenly he had levered himself up from the sofa, rocking the lame man violently, and was walking towards the receptionist.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1,
- (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
- 2001, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher,” Time, 9 April, 2001,[3]
- He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism.
- 2013, Robert McCrum, “Biographies of the year — review,” The Guardian, 8 December, 2013,[4]
- Credited with pioneering the detective novel, Collins has attracted many biographers over the years, drawn to his extraordinary life and work in the hope of levering open a new understanding of the Victorian psyche.
- 2001, Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Bagging the Butcher,” Time, 9 April, 2001,[3]
- (chiefly Britain, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English lever, comparative of leve, leef (“dear, beloved, lief”), equivalent to lief +? -er. Related to German lieber (“rather”).
Alternative forms
- liever
Adverb
lever (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Rather.
- 1530, John Heywood, The Four PP
- for I had lever be without ye / Then have suche besines about ye
- 1537, William Tyndale et al, "Jonah", in The Byble
- Now therefore take my life from me, for I had lever die then live.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene
- For lever had I die than see his deadly face.
- 1530, John Heywood, The Four PP
Translations
Etymology 3
Borrowed from French lever.
Noun
lever (plural levers)
- (rare) A levee.
- 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:
- We do not appear at Phœbus's Levér.
- 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:
- Louis XIV’s day began with a lever at 9 and ended (officially) at around midnight.
- 1742, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Delany's Letters, II.191:
Further reading
- lever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- Revel, elver, revel
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Danish liuær, from Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *libr?, cognate with English liver and German Leber. The Germanic word may be an irregular remodelling of the Proto-Indo-European word for "liver", *yók?r?, cf. Ancient Greek ???? (hêpar) and Latin iecur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lew??]
Noun
lever c (singular definite leveren, plural indefinite levere)
- liver
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?le???], [?le?w?]
Verb
lever
- present of leve
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [le??e???]
Verb
lever or levér
- imperative of levere
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?v?r/
- Hyphenation: le?ver
- Rhymes: -e?v?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch l?vere, from Old Dutch *levara, from Proto-Germanic *libr?.
Noun
lever f (plural levers, diminutive levertje n)
- liver
- edible animal liver as a dish or culinary ingredient
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: lewer
- ? Indonesian: lever
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lever
- first-person singular present indicative of leveren
- imperative of leveren
French
Etymology
From Middle French lever, from Old French lever, from Latin lev?re, present active infinitive of lev? (“to elevate”), from levis (“light, not heavy”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?.ve/
- Homophones: levai, levé, levée, levées, levés, levez
Verb
lever
- (transitive) To raise, lift.
- Antonym: baisser
- (reflexive) To rise, stand up.
- Antonym: s'abaisser
- (reflexive) To get up (out of bed).
- Antonyms: se coucher, s'allonger
- (reflexive, of fog, rain and etc) To clear, lift.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /?/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /?/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il lève rather than *il leve. Other verbs conjugated this way include acheter and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Derived terms
Noun
lever m (plural levers)
- The act of getting up in the morning.
Further reading
- “lever” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- lèvre
Hungarian
Etymology
le- +? ver
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?v?r]
- Hyphenation: le?ver
- Rhymes: -?r
Verb
lever
- (transitive) to knock down
Conjugation
Derived terms
- leverés
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch lever (“liver”), from Middle Dutch l?vere, from Old Dutch *levara, from Proto-Germanic *libr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?v?r]
- Hyphenation: lè?vêr
Noun
lèvêr (first-person possessive leverku, second-person possessive levermu, third-person possessive levernya)
- liver.
- Synonym: hati
Alternative forms
- liver
Further reading
- “lever” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Verb
l?ver
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of l?v?
Middle English
Etymology
Comparative of leve (“dear”) of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.
Adverb
lever
- Rather.
- For him was lever have at his bed's head
Twenty bookes, clad in black or red,
. . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. —The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer - But lever than this worldés good
She would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.
- For him was lever have at his bed's head
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French lever.
Verb
lever
- to lift
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Descendants
- French: lever
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (lever, supplement)
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *libr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).
Noun
lever m or f (definite singular leveren or levra, indefinite plural levere or levre or levrer, definite plural leverne or levrene)
- (anatomy) a liver
- liver (eaten as food)
Derived terms
- skrumplever
Etymology 2
Verb
lever
- present tense of leve
- imperative of levere
References
- “lever” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *libr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Akin to English liver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le???r/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
lever f (definite singular levra, indefinite plural levrar or levrer, definite plural levrane or levrene)
- (anatomy) a liver
- liver (eaten as food)
Alternative forms
- (superseded) livr
Derived terms
- skrumplever
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²le???r/ (example of pronunciation)
Verb
lever
- present of leve
Further reading
- “lever” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin l?v?re, present active infinitive of l?v?.
Verb
lever
- to lift (up)
- (reflexive, se level) to get up (get out of bed)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem liev distinct from the unstressed stem lev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: lever
- French: lever
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz.
Noun
l?ver m
- loaf, bread
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: lev
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse lifr, from Proto-Germanic *libr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smudge, stick”), from *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).
Noun
lever c
- (anatomy) a liver
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
lever
- present tense of leva.
Further reading
- lever in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lever in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- lever in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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