different between levigate vs levirate

English

Alternative forms

• laevigate, lævigate (nonstandard)

Etymology

From l?vig?tus, past participle of Latin l?vig? (“I smoothen”), from l?vis (“smooth”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?l?v??e?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?l?v???t/

Verb

levigate (third-person singular simple present levigates, present participle levigating, simple past and past participle levigated)

1. (transitive) to make smooth or polish
2. (transitive) to make into a smooth paste or fine powder
3. (transitive) to separate finer grains from coarser ones by suspension in a liquid
4. (transitive, rare) to lighten
5. (transitive, rare) to belittle

Translations

Adjective

levigate (comparative more levigate, superlative most levigate)

1. Smooth.
2. (rare) Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     his labours beinge levigate

Italian

Verb

levigate

1. second-person plural present indicative of levigare
2. second-person plural imperative of levigare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of levigare

Anagrams

• legatevi, vegetali, vegliate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /le?.u?i??a?.te/, [??e?u????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le.vi??a.te/, [l?vi????t??]

Participle

l?vig?te

1. vocative masculine singular of l?vig?tus

English

Etymology

From Latin l?vir (“husband's brother, brother-in-law”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dayh?w?r (“one's brother-in-law”)) + -ate

Adjective

levirate (not comparable)

1. Having to do with one's husband's brother.

Usage notes

• This adjective is used almost exclusively as part of the phrase levirate marriage.

Translations

Noun

levirate (plural levirates)

1. (countable) A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
2. (anthropology) The institution of levirate marriage.
   • 1894, Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, second ed., Macmillan and Co., page 510,

     And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate—that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.

   • 1986, John S. Scullion, translator, Genesis 37-50: A Continental Commentary by Claus Westermann, Fortress Press, ?ISBN, page 52,

     It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion.

   • 2006, Gary P. Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, Thomson Wadsworth, ?ISBN, page 219,

     The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family.

Translations

Anagrams

• relative