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suavior

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From suāvium + -or.

Pronunciation

Verb

suāvior (present infinitive suāviārī, perfect active suāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to kiss
    Synonyms: bāsiō, ōsculor
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • suāviātiō
Descendants
  • Franco-Provençal: assuègier

Etymology 2

Diachronically from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂d-(i)-yes-. Related to the above.

Adjective

suāvior (comparative, neuter suāvius); third declension

  1. comparative degree of suāvis
Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

References

  • Wodtko, Dagmar S.; Irslinger, Britta; Schneider, Carolin (2008), “*su̯eh₂d-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 670–672
  • suavior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suavior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suavior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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