adverb
perleviter
perleviter (comparative perlevius, superlative perlevissimē)
Classical[pɛrˈɫɛ.wɪ.tɛr]Ecclesiastical[perˈlɛː.vi.ter]
Meaning
- very lightly
Quintus tuus meusque, quod perleviter commotus fuerat, defuit
Quintus, your and my boy, was absent because he was afflicted with a very slight indisposition106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Quintus 10.2
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
per-leviter adv.
perlevis, very lightly : commotus: pungit animi dolor.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Latin leviter Latin perleviter From per- + leviter.