levada

English

Noun

levada (plural levadas)

1. An irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira.

Anagrams

• Valade, avaled

Galician

Watermill with its levada

Etymology

From agua levada (literally “conducted water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈβaða̝/

Noun

levada f (plural levadas)

1. aqueduct or canal
   • 1447, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 572:

     "moiño do Cangado" "con toda sua casa e pedra e con todas suas levadas e presas e augas"

     "mill of the Cangado" "with all of its building and stone and ducts and dams and waters"

   Synonyms: cal, canle

Derived terms

• Augalevada
• Levada

Related terms

• levar

Participle

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “levada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “levada”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “levada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “levada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “levada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Adjective

levada

1. feminine singular of levado

Participle

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈbada/ [leˈβ̞a.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: le‧va‧da

Noun

levada f (uncountable)

1. The lower-quality fibers separated out during hackling.

Participle

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

Further reading

• “levada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026