levor Latin · revision 36762

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la lēvis#2}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lēvor''' ''m'' (genitive lēvōris); third declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Lewis & Short and Georges also give the spelling ''laevor''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lēvis#2|-or|t1=smooth]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan takes [[m|la|lēvis#2|alt=lēvis]] as an old u-stem adjective, from [[itc-pro|*lēju-]] and [[ine-pro|*leh₁i-u-|t=smooth]], and compares [[grc|λεῖος|tr=leîos|t=level, smooth]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of the smoothness of the atoms (''haud sine principali aliquo levore'', “not without some primary smoothness”) and also of the voice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Pliny the Elder names smoothness among the qualities by which papyrus is judged, beside thinness, density and whiteness,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and uses it of the smoothness that remedies give the body.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Georges notes that its opposite is roughness.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of smooth atoms and of the voice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the smoothness of papyrus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|smoothness|alt=Smoothness]], evenness of a surface.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Smoothness of the voice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lēvigō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Its opposite is [[asperitās]] “roughness”.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}