Where does “λεβάντες” come from?
λεβάντες (Greek) comes from Italian levante, from Italian levarsi, from Latin levāns, from Latin levō, from Latin lēvis, from Proto-Italic leɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European h₁léngʰus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁lengʷʰ- — light.
Ancestry of “λεβάντες”, step by step
Words derived from “λεβάντες”