leviano

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish leviano (cf. modern Spanish liviano), from Vulgar Latin *levianus. Old Portuguese had the inherited form livão, showing a native treatment of intervocalic Latin /n/. Compare Galician livián.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.viˈɐ̃.nu/ [le.vɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /leˈvjɐ̃.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.viˈɐ.no/ [le.vɪˈɐ.no], (faster pronunciation) /leˈvjɐ.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈvjɐ.nu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈbja.nu/ [lɨˈβja.nu]

Hyphenation: le‧vi‧a‧no

Adjective

leviano (feminine leviana, masculine plural levianos, feminine plural levianas)

flighty, thoughtless
frivolous, flippant
fickle
imprudent, inconsiderate
precipitate, rash
Synonyms: irrefletido, precipitado, imprudente, insensato, leve
(Brazil) light, weightless

Related terms

levianamente

References

LUFT, Celso Pedro. Dicionário Luft. São Paulo: Ática, 2000. →ISBN ([1])
Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “leve”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 637