English
levanter
* (wind): Levant + -er; Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), figuratively: to flee eastward, literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France.
Formed from Levant + -er
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰus ‘lightweight’
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Old French lever ‘to lift (up)’
Middle French lever ‘to lift’
French lever ‘to raise’
French levant
English Levant
Today it means
noun An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / levanter