levans

== English == === Noun === levans plural of levan === Anagrams === Valens, elvans, navels, snavel == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Present active participle of levō (“lift, raise”). ==== Participle ==== levāns (genitive levantis); third-declension one-termination participle lifting, raising lightening, making light relieving, easing, comforting mitigating, alleviating ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === Present active participle of lēvō (“smooth, polish”). ==== Participle ==== lēvāns (genitive lēvantis); third-declension one-termination participle smoothing, polishing ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === References === "levans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)