levir
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin lēvir.
Noun
[edit]levir (plural levirs)
- A husband's brother.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 236:
- The tie between the childless widow and the levir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood. Thus a sexual relationship with anyone other than the levir would be adulterous, an offense punishable by the death penalty, according to Lev. 20:10 and Deut. 22:22.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used in reference to levirate marriages.
Anagrams
[edit]Ido
[edit]Verb
[edit]levir
- past infinitive of levar
Latin
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr (“one's brother-in-law”). For initial l- compare lingua, lacrima. The expected *-ver was possibly altered under the influence of vir (“man”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈleː.u̯ir/, [ˈɫ̪eːu̯ɪr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.vir/, [ˈlɛːvir]
Noun
[edit]lēvir m (genitive lēvirī); second declension
- (Late Latin) one's husband's brother
- Coordinate term: glōs f
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lēvir | lēvirī |
| genitive | lēvirī | lēvirōrum |
| dative | lēvirō | lēvirīs |
| accusative | lēvirum | lēvirōs |
| ablative | lēvirō | lēvirīs |
| vocative | lēvir | lēvirī |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lēvir/laevir”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 336
Further reading
[edit]- “levir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- levir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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