Borrowed fromLate Latinlēvir.
levir (plurallevirs)
- Ahusband'sbrother.
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow,Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page236:The tie between the childless widow and thelevir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood. Thus a sexual relationship with anyone other than thelevir would be adulterous, an offense punishable by the death penalty, according to Lev. 20:10 and Deut. 22:22.
2008, Deborah L. Ellens,Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis, Bloomsbury,→ISBN,page261:Levirate marriage protects alevir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.
levir
- past infinitive oflevar
FromProto-Indo-European*dayh₂wḗr(“one's brother-in-law”). For initiall- comparelingua,lacrima. The expected*-ver was possibly altered under the influence ofvir(“man”).[1]
lēvir m (genitivelēvirī);second declension
- (Late Latin) one'shusband'sbrother
- Coordinate term:glōs f
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in-r).
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lēvir/laevir”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page336
- “levir”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- levir inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
