Levi, Primo Syllabification: (Le·vi, Primo)Pronunciation: /ˈlevē/Definition of Levi, Primo (1919–87), Italian writer and chemist. His experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz are recounted in his first book, If This Is a Man (1947). Levi, Primo in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Levi, Primo in the British & World English dictionary