levente

See also: Levente

Hungarian

Etymology

Loanword via Serbo-Croatian lèvēnta(sh). Compare Ottoman Turkish لوند (lävänd, levend, levent, “volunteer sailor”) and Turkish levent,[1] as well as Greek λεβέντης (levéntis) and Bulgarian левент (levent)(bg).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛvɛntɛ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: le‧ven‧te
  • Rhymes: -tɛ

Noun

levente (plural leventék)

  1. (historical) warrior, fighter, knight (in the Middle Ages) [from 1568]
    Synonyms: hős, vitéz, harcos
  2. (dated) a strapping youth (young man)
    Synonym: dalia
  3. (historical) a member of a paramilitary youth organization in Hungary between 1920 and 1945
  4. (historical, informal) the institution where the training of this paramilitary youth organization took place; cf. leventemozgalom

Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative levente leventék
accusative leventét leventéket
dative leventének leventéknek
instrumental leventével leventékkel
causal-final leventéért leventékért
translative leventévé leventékké
terminative leventéig leventékig
essive-formal leventeként leventékként
essive-modal — —
inessive leventében leventékben
superessive leventén leventéken
adessive leventénél leventéknél
illative leventébe leventékbe
sublative leventére leventékre
allative leventéhez leventékhez
elative leventéből leventékből
delative leventéről leventékről
ablative leventétől leventéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 leventéé leventéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 leventééi leventékéi
Possessive forms of levente
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. leventém leventéim
2nd person sing. leventéd leventéid
3rd person sing. leventéje leventéi
1st person plural leventénk leventéink
2nd person plural leventétek leventéitek
3rd person plural leventéjük leventéik

See also
  • Levente (an etymologically unrelated masculine given name, related to the verb lesz)

References
  1. Benkő, Loránd, ed. A magyar nyelv történeti-etimológiai szótára I–IV. (“The Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Budapest: Akadémiai, 1967–1984. →ISBN. Vol. 1: A–Gy (1967), vol. 2: H–O (1970), vol. 3: Ö–Zs (1976), vol. 4: index (1984).

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