levitoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫɛ.wɪ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛː.vi.to]

動詞

levitō (present infinitive levitāre, perfect active levitāvī, supine levitātum); first conjugation

1. (New Latin, intransitive) to have one's motion directed upward, as opposed to the downward motion induced by gravity; to levitate

   Coordinate term: gravitō

   • 1525, Suessanus (Agostino Nifo), De Celo et Mundo (Latin translation of Aristoteles' On the Heavens), page 157:

     […] aer deſcẽdit a regione ignis.⁊ aſcẽdit a regione terrę ⁊ aquę:ergo aer grauitat ⁊ leuitat in loco eius medio.

     [ […] aer descendit a regione ignis et ascendit a regione terrae et aquae: ergo aer gravitat et levitat in loco eius medio.]

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   • 1670, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, “Liber I. XIV, Nautica Aetherea. Ars navigandi supra Aërem. Nota VIII, De corporum Caeleſtium gravitate. Numerus MLCCVIII”, in Mathesis biceps, page 758:

     Quod, ſi dicāntur Lunae partes in Regione Lunae neque gravitare, neq; levitare, at ſupra ipſam regionem gravitare, infra levitare; […]

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   • 1671, Jodocus Perret and Franz Volmar, “Dissertatio III. De Elementis. CCLXXI”, in Placita Philosophica, page 222:

     Licèt tamen contendamus, Terram, & Aquam gravitare; Ignémque cum Aëre levitare, ſive illa principium motûs deorſum, haec verò principium motûs ſurſum actu exercere

     It needs be affirmed the earth and water to gravitate, whereas fire and air levitate, this is to say, the former move downward, the latter upward.

Conjugation

派生した語

• Catalan: levitar
• English: levitate
• French: léviter
• Italian: levitare
• Portuguese: levitar
• Spanish: levitar