Levitate
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late 17th century: from Latin levis ‘light’, on the pattern of gravitate .
wiktionary
Latin levō(“I elevate, I lift up”), from levis(“light”).
etymonline
levitate (v.)
1670s, "to rise by virtue of lightness" (intransitive), from Latin levitas "lightness," on the model of gravitate (compare levity). Transitive sense of "raise (a person) into the air, cause to become buoyant" (1870s) is mainly from spiritualism. Related: Levitated; levitating.
