levatura

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish levadura, Portuguese levedura and French levure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le.vaˈtu.ra/

Noun

levatura (uncountable)

1. yeast
   • 1960, Frank Ungar, "Dehydrogenases hydroxysteroide in hepate de mammiferos", translation of "Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases in mammalian liver", session VIII b, No. 365, First International Congress of Endocrinology Copenhagen, page 728, English taken from original.

     Dehydrogenase alcoholic obtenite ab levatura esseva inactive.

     Alcohol dehydrogenase obtained from yeast was inactive.

Italian

Etymology

From levare +‎ -tura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le.vaˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: le‧va‧tù‧ra

Noun

levatura f (plural levature)

1. intellect
   • 2002, Roberto Baravalle, Anni strappati, page 48:

     Il nostro mestiere è un'arte, riservata a persone di levatura superiore. Intendo dire levatura intellettuale, ovviamente.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Anagrams

• lavature, urlavate, valutare, valuterà, velatura

Latin

Participle

levātūra

1. inflection of levātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

levātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of levātūrus

References

• levatura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)