Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea. Ultimately from Latin levō + -ant.
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| levants | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea. Ultimately from Latin levō + -ant.
He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:
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| levanted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| levanted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| levants | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| levanting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
pl zwiewać (to abscond or run away) · fi livistää (to abscond or run away) · cs prásknout do bot (to abscond or run away) · sv smita (to abscond or run away) · bg офейквам (to abscond or run away) · sv sjappa (to abscond or run away) · sv rymma (to abscond or run away) · pl ulotnić się (to abscond or run away) · pl ulatniać się (to abscond or run away) · pl zwiać (to abscond or run away)
From French levant.
[...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a[…]1977, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Proceedings:
Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset:
[...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.1980, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History:
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
western · ponent · occidental
couchant and levant · levant and couchant