leviano
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Spanish leviano (cf. modern Spanish liviano), from Vulgar Latin *levianus. Old Portuguese had the inherited form livão, showing a native treatment of intervocalic Latin /n/. Compare Galician livián.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: le‧vi‧a‧no
Adjective[edit]
leviano (feminine leviana, masculine plural levianos, feminine plural levianas)
- flighty, thoughtless
- frivolous, flippant
- fickle
- imprudent, inconsiderate
- precipitate, rash
- Synonyms: irrefletido, precipitado, imprudente, insensato, leve
- (Brazil) light, weightless
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- LUFT, Celso Pedro. Dicionário Luft. São Paulo: Ática, 2000. →ISBN ([1])
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “leve”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 637