agevole
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Formerly explained as a loan from Medieval Latin agibilem,[1] a cognate with English and French agible (“doable”, archaic), but Old Italian usage indicate that it is rather indigenously derived from agio (“ease”) + -evole.[2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]agevole (plural agevoli)
- easy
- Antonyms: disagevole, malagevole
- smooth (road surface, etc.)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “agevole”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ agévole in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/3885879/Ghost_words_and_new_discoveries_in_the_TLIO_Old_Italian_dictionary