édesít

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Hungarian

Etymology

édes (sweet) +‎ -ít (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

Verb

édesít

  1. (transitive) to sweeten (to make sweet to the taste, to add sweetener especially to food, drink, medicine to make it sweet)
  2. (transitive, figuratively, literary) to sweeten (to make less painful or laborious, to lessen the unpleasantness of a condition)

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Further reading

  • édesít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • édesít in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).