suavis

Meaning

sweet, pleasant, delicious

Concepts

sweet

soft

tender

gentle

agreeable

charming

disarming

fair

friendly

kind

kindly

lovely

mild

nice

good

👍

winsome

affable

alluring

bland

blunt

Synonyms

bellus

comis

lepidus

dulcis

Translations

süß

dolç

doux

dolce

meigo

dulce

hoş

zacht

zoet

liefelijk

doce

suave

ameno

tatlı

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsʷaː.wɪs]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swāwis, from Proto-Italic *suādwus, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”). The extension of the u-stem into an i-stem is regular (compare brevis, tenuis) and must have occurred before the loss of *-d- in medial *-dw-.