lleuger

Inherited from Old Catalan leuger, from Vulgar Latin *leviārius, from *levius +‎ -ārius, the former element representing an alteration of Latin levis (“lightweight”). Compare Occitan leugièr, French léger.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʎəwˈʒe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ʎewˈd͡ʒeɾ], [ʎawˈd͡ʒeɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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lleuger (feminine lleugera, masculine plural lleugers, feminine plural lleugeres)

1. slight; partial; not whole; not entire
2. light (not heavy, not having much weight)
3. quiet

• alleugerir / alleugerar
• lleugerament
• lleugeresa

• lleu

• “lleuger” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “lleuger”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007