levy

See also: Levy, Lévy, and levý

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

  1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
    to levy a tax
  2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
    • Shakespeare
      If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
  3. To draft someone into military service.
  4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
    • Fuller
      Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
  5. To wage war.
  6. To raise, as a siege.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
  7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
    to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Translations

Noun

levy (plural levies)

  1. The act of levying.
    • Thirlwall
      A levy of all the men left under sixty.
  2. The tax, property or people so levied.
    • Macaulay
      The Irish levies.
Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

levy (plural levies)

  1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

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Finnish

Etymology

Cognate to leveä (“wide”) and levittää (“to spread”).

Noun

levy

  1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
  2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
  3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
  4. disk (device for storing data)
  5. recording (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)

Declension

Inflection of levy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative levy levyt
genitive levyn levyjen
partitive levyä levyjä
illative levyyn levyihin
singular plural
nominative levy levyt
accusative nom. levy levyt
gen. levyn
genitive levyn levyjen
partitive levyä levyjä
inessive levyssä levyissä
elative levystä levyistä
illative levyyn levyihin
adessive levyllä levyillä
ablative levyltä levyiltä
allative levylle levyille
essive levynä levyinä
translative levyksi levyiksi
instructive — levyin
abessive levyttä levyittä
comitative — levyineen

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References

  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.

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