#1
adjective
Definitions:
- gentle, kind, light
- smooth, mild, easy, calm
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
- Source: General, unknown or too common to say
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#2
verb
- conjugation: 4th conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease
- mitigate, moderate
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
- Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
verb
- conjugation: 4th conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- abate
- beguile, pass pleasantly
- explain away, gloss over
- mollify
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
- Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
adverb
Definitions:
- gently/mildly/lightly/slightly
- moderately
- smoothly
- w/gentle movement/incline
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
- Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
verb
- conjugation: irregular
Definitions:
- (Kludge)
- abate
- beguile, pass pleasantly
- explain away, gloss over
- mollify
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
- Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess
#6
verb
- voice: irregular
Definitions:
- alleviate, allay, assuage, ease, calm, placate, appease
- mitigate, moderate
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
- Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess
#7
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- alleviation, solace
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
- Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#8
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- gentleness, mildness
- lenience
- smoothness
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
- Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#9
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- alleviation, improvement, mitigation (Nelson)
- sop (Collins)
- Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
- Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#10
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- calmness
- mildness
- softness
- Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
- Area: All or none
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
- Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)