different between levy vs leva

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?l?.vi/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

   to levy a tax
2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

   • Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.

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7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

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Translations

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.
   • 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece

     A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.

Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

See also

• levee
• Levi

Anagrams

• Elvy, vley

Finnish

Etymology

lev- +? -y; stem from leveä (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?y/, [?le??y]
• Rhymes: -e?y
• Syllabification: le?vy

Noun

levy

1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
4. (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
5. (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
6. Short for keittolevy (“hotplate”).

Declension

Synonyms

• (plate): laatta
• (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)

Hyponyms

• (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single

Derived terms

• levyttää
• levytys

Compounds

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• elvy

English

Noun

leva

1. plural of lev

Anagrams

• Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, vale, veal, vela

French

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular past historic of lever

Anagrams

• lave, lavé

Interlingua

Verb

leva

1. present of levar
2. imperative of levar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.va/
• Rhymes: -?va

Noun

leva f (plural leve)

1. lever
2. (military) call-up, conscription, draft, national service
3. (military, called up soldiers) those called-up, conscripts

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular present indicative of levare
2. second-person singular imperative of levare

Anagrams

• lave, vale, vela

Latin

Verb

lev?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lev?

References

• leva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• leve

Etymology

From Old Norse lifa. Akin to English live

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²le???/

Verb

leva (present tense lever, past tense levde, past participle levt or levd, present participle levande, imperative lev)

1. to live (be alive)

2. to subsist (nourish oneself)

   Pandaen lever av bambus.

   The panda subsists on bamboo.

References

• “leva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijan?.

Verb

l?va

1. to leave behind

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: leva (obsolete)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.v?/

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

1. wave (sudden unusually large amount of something)

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of levar

   Ele leva isso.

   He takes this.

2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of levar

   Tu aí, leva isso sozinho.

   You there, take this by yourself.

Romanian

Etymology

From Bulgarian ???? (leva), plural of ??? (lev, “lion”), from Proto-Slavic *l?v? (“lion”).

Noun

leva f (plural leve)

1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin levo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eba

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

1. (military) draft (of troops)
2. (mechanical) cog
3. (mechanical) cam

Swedish

Alternative forms

• lefva

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish liva, from Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Norwegian leve, Danish leve, Icelandic lifa, Dutch leven, German leben and English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²le?va/

Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)

1. to live; to be alive

Conjugation

See also

• livs levande
• liv
• länge leve

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish l?va, from Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Icelandic leifa, English leave.

Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)

1. (obsolete) to leave
   • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Gospel of Matthew, 22:25

   Synonym: lämna

Derived terms

• kvarleva

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

leva

1. indefinite plural of lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Anagrams

• elva, lave, vale, vela