levare

It is written in encyclopedias and taught in universities that the word carnival is derived from the Latin carne levare, meaning 'the putting away of flesh.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

Non riuscivo a levare quel peso dalla coscienza, in alcun modo.

No Fat Clips!!! : Barnes & Noble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2008

Qui rationem corporis non habent, sed cogunt mortalem immortali, terrestrem aethereae aequalem praestare industriam: Caeterum ut Camelo usu venit, quod ei bos praedixerat, cum eidem servirent domino et parte oneris levare illum Camelus recusasset, paulo post et ipsius curem, et totum onus cogeretur gestare (quod mortuo bove impletum) Ita animo quoque contingit, dum defatigato corpori, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Capitoni suo Diebus ac noctibus, hoc solum cogito si qua me possum levare humo.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Revelare is velamentum levare; "to reveal is to take off the veil or covering."

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

'Ast ego, Dardaniae quamvis sub collibus Albae rus proprium magnique ducis mihi munere currens unda domi curas mulcere aestusque levare sufficerent.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

And that mysterious lady, who never revealed her face, (except to me in dreams,) but always acted by delegation, had her name from the Latin verb (as still it is the Italian verb) _levare_, to raise aloft.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Shrovetide is the English equivalent of what is known in the greater part of Southern Europe as the "Carnival", a word which, in spite of wild suggestions to the contrary, is undoubtedly to be derived from the "taking away of flesh" (camera levare) which marked the beginning of Lent.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

And that mysterious lady, who never revealed her face (except to me in dreams), but always acted by delegation, had her name from the Latin verb (as still it is the Italian verb) levare, to raise aloft.

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 1909

And that mysterious lady, who never revealed her face (except to me in dreams), but always acted by delegation, had her name from the Latin verb (as still it is the Italian verb) _levare_, to raise aloft.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864