"levitate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈlɛvɪteɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-levitate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: levitates [present, singular, third-person], levitating [participle, present], levitated [participle, past], levitated [past]
Etymology: Latin levō (“I elevate, I lift up”), from levis (“light”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|levō||I elevate, I lift up}} Latin levō (“I elevate, I lift up”), {{m|la|levis||light}} levis (“light”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} levitate (third-person singular simple present levitates, present participle levitating, simple past and past participle levitated)
  1. (transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity. Tags: transitive Translations (to cause to rise in the air and float): вдигам във въздуха (vdigam vǎv vǎzduha) (Bulgarian), leijuttaa (Finnish), saada levitoimaan (Finnish), schweben lassen (German), levitieren (German), levationem ago (Latin), levitar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-levitate-en-verb-5pEErWKV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'to cause to rise in the air and float': 86 14
  2. (intransitive) To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity. Tags: intransitive Translations (to be suspend in the air): levitar (Catalan), vznášet se [imperfective] (Czech), levitovat (Czech), levitacii (Esperanto), leijua (Finnish), levitoida (Finnish), schweben (German), lewitować (Polish), levitar (Portuguese), лѐбдјети [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), левитирати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), lèbdjeti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), levitar (Spanish), levitera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-levitate-en-verb-MZ4MLL2J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'to be suspend in the air': 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: levitation

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} levitate
  1. inflection of levitare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
    Sense id: en-levitate-it-verb-9rctlRQh Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 87 13
  2. inflection of levitare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person
    Sense id: en-levitate-it-verb-RCxzRixl

Noun [Latin]

Forms: levitāte [canonical, feminine]
Head templates: {{head|la|noun form|g=f|head=levitāte}} levitāte f
  1. ablative singular of levitās Tags: ablative, form-of, singular Form of: levitās
    Sense id: en-levitate-la-noun-3aCR0ouU Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} levitate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of levitar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: levitar
    Sense id: en-levitate-es-verb-8xRBAusG Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "word": "levitate"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Italian non-lemma forms",
    "Italian verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "levitate",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of levitare:",
        "second-person plural present indicative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "levitare",
          "levitare#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of levitare:",
        "second-person plural imperative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "levitare",
          "levitare#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "levitate"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "levitāte",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "noun form",
        "g": "f",
        "head": "levitāte"
      },
      "expansion": "levitāte f",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin non-lemma forms",
        "Latin noun forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "levitās"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ablative singular of levitās"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "levitās",
          "levitas#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "form-of",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "levitate"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "levitate",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish non-lemma forms",
        "Spanish verb forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "levitar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular voseo imperative of levitar combined with te"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "levitar",
          "levitar#Spanish"
        ],
        [
          "te",
          "te#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "object-second-person",
        "object-singular",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "with-voseo"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "levitate"
}

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