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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈlɛ.vo/
- Rhymes: -ɛvo
- Hyphenation: al‧lè‧vo
Verb
allevo
- first-person singular present indicative of allevare
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Latin
Etymology 1
From ad- + levō (“lift up, raise”), from levis (“light”).
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Verb
allevō (present infinitive allevāre, perfect active allevāvī, supine allevātum); first conjugation
- to lift or set up, raise
- Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, scandō, efferō, surgō, ēdō, sublīmō
- Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō
- (figuratively) to lighten, lessen, alleviate, mitigate, reduce
- Synonyms: lēniō, dēlēniō, commītigō, plācō, mānsuēscō, mānsuētō, restinguō, mītigō, levō, alleviō, molliō
- Antonyms: dūrō, obdūrō
- (figuratively) to sustain, comfort, console
- (figuratively) to raise up, make distinguished; enhance
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Etymology 2
From ad- + lēvō (“make smooth”), from lēvis (“smooth”).
Pronunciation
Verb
allēvō (present infinitive allēvāre, perfect active allēvāvī, supine allēvātum); first conjugation
- to make smooth, smooth off or over
- Synonyms: lēvō, lēvigō
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References
- “allevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- allevo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.