agevole
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old Italian usage indicates that the term is indigenously derived from agio (“ease”) + -evole.[1][2] It was formerly explained as a loan from Medieval Latin agibilem,[3] a cognate with English and French agible (“doable”, archaic).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]agevole m or f by sense (plural agevoli)
- easy
- Antonyms: disagevole, malagevole
- smooth (road surface, etc.)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “agevole”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(H)yeh₁-
- Italian terms suffixed with -evole
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éd
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/evole
- Rhymes:Italian/evole/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian adjectives
- Italian epicene adjectives