leniter

leniter

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin lēnis
Proto-Indo-European *-teros?
Latin -ter
Latin lēniter

    From lēnis (“soft, smooth”) + -ter (adverb-forming suffix).

    Adverb

    lēniter (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)

    1. softly, gently

    Synonyms

    References

    • “leniter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “leniter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “leniter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
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