lévite
French, noun
lévite is spelled L-É-V-I-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lévite is a French masculine noun meaning “Levite (member of the Hebrew tribe Levi)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of léviter. With an accent, lévité is a different word: “past participle of léviter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Membre de la tribu de Lévi, à qui était réservé le service du temple”.
What does lévite mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineLevite (member of the Hebrew tribe Levi)
noun
- 1
feminineLevite (a loose man's garment)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of léviter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Membre de la tribu de Lévi, à qui était réservé le service du temple. 2. Séminariste ou prêtre catholique. 3. Celui qui est attaché aveuglément au chef d'une formation, d’un parti, d’une secte, d’une école.
noun: 1. Long vêtement d’homme qui rappelle le vêtement des lévites. 2. Ample robe de femme à la mode sous Marie-Antoinette.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lévite
- lévites plural
- lévitée feminine
- lévités masculine plural
- lévitées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lévite
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lévite in French?
lévite appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).