Latin

Adverb

leviter ‎(comparable levius, superlative levissimē)

1. lightly, not heavily
2. slightly, somewhat
3. easily, smoothly

Related terms

• levis
• levitās
• levō

References

• leviter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• leviter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “leviter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
    
  • to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse
    
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
    
  • to hint vaguely at a thing: leviter significare aliquid