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Borrowed from Latin alleviāre, from ad- + levis. Compare the dialectal Tuscan form allebbiare (lighten a ship), which was inherited from Latin.

  • IPA(key): /al.leˈvja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: al‧le‧vià‧re

alleviàre (first-person singular present allèvio, first-person singular past historic alleviài, past participle alleviàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to alleviate, relieve

alleviāre

  1. inflection of alleviō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative