Levite
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin Levītēs, Lēvīta, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Λευῑ́της (Leuī́tēs). By surface analysis, Levi + -ite.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Levite (plural Levites)
- A member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi, particularly in its role as a priestly caste.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 17:7:
- And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
- (obsolete, humorous) A clergyman.
- (now historical) A type of loose dress.
- 1779, Horace Walpole, letter, 15 November:
- A habit-maker […] is gone stark in love with Lady Ossory, on fitting her with the new dress, I think they call it a Levite, and says he never saw so glorious a figure […] .
- 2003, Aileen Ribeiro, in Robyn Asleson, Notorious Muse, Yale UNiversity Press 2003, p. 109:
- Gainsborough shows her wearing a blue and white striped silk wrapping gown, known as a levite: a clever and subtle choice of costume, vaguely ‘oriental’ in mood, deriving its name from the theatre.
- 1779, Horace Walpole, letter, 15 November:
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi
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Adjective
[edit]Levite (not comparable)
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel)
- (descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel): Asher (Asherite), Benjamin (Benjaminite), Dan (Danite), Gad (Gadite), Issachar (Issacharite), Joseph (Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite), Manasseh (Manassite)), Judah (Judahite), Levi (Levite), Naphtali (Naphtalite), Reuben (Reubenite), Simeon (Simeonite), Zebulun (Zebulunite)
- Israel
- Israeli
- Israelite
- Israelitic
- Israelitish
- Jew
- Jewish
- Judah
- Judean
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