agevole
Italian
editEtymology
editFormerly 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
editAdjective
editagevole (plural agevoli)
- easy
- Antonyms: disagevole, malagevole
- smooth (road surface, etc.)
Derived terms
editReferences
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