levet

Compare French lever (“to raise”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvɪt/

levet (plural levets)

1. (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     First he that led the cavalcate,
     Wore a sow-gelder's flagellet,
     On which he blew as strong a levet.

“levet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

levet

1. past participle of leve

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛvɛt]
• Hyphenation: le‧vet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

le- +‎ vet

levet

2. (transitive, literary or archaic) to throw off, throw down, fling off/down

   Synonym: ledob

3. (transitive, of a horse) to eject (its rider)
4. (transitive, somewhat literary) to take off, remove, shed (clothes or shoes; of a shelled animal: its shell; of a tree: its bark; etc.)

   Synonyms: levesz, (clothes items) lehúz

From the lev- stem of lé +‎ -et (accusative suffix).

• lét

levet

2. accusative singular of lé

• összeszűri a levet

• levet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

lēvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of lēvō

levet

1. definite singular of leve