delicate · difficult, tricky · sensitive, thorny
köken: Inherited from Middle French delicat, borrowed from Latin dēlicātus.
aile: délicatement, délicatesse
switched off, shut down · faint, pale
eş: opaco
aile: blanco apagado
elusive (criminal etc.) · incomprehensible, ungraspable (meaning etc.)
eş: imprendibile, sfuggente, flebile, impercettibile, incomprensibile, oscuro
köken: From in- + afferrabile.
aile: inafferrabilità, inafferrabilmente
elusive, difficult to catch · imperceptible, subtle
eş: неощутимый, незаметный
köken: не- (ne-) + улови́мый (ulovímyj)
aile: неулови́мо, неулови́мость
🔊 он неулови́м
🔊 неулови́мый звук
🔊 неулови́мая ра́зница
light, not heavy · slight, not severe (e.g. of a disease) · Relating to a certain type of poetic meter, usually found in masnavis.
çekim: karşılaştırma خفیفتَر · üstünlük خفیفتَرین
zıt: ثقیل, سنگین, گران, شدید
köken: Borrowed from Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf).
past participle of dempen
European Portuguese standard form of sutil
plain, simple · quiet, subdued
zıt: 派手
🔊 地味な暮らし
considerate, tactful · subtle (cleverly contrived) · gentle (tender and amiable)
çekim: karşılaştırma subtelniejszy · üstünlük najsubtelniejszy
eş: delikatny, delikatny, wyszukany, filigranowy, delikatny, łagodny
köken: Adapted borrowing of Latin subtīlis + -ny. Earlier, as expected, subtylny. The current form is hypercorrect – when the accepted pronunciation of é was changing from y to e, the word was reinterpreted as subtélny, and the new y-less form was reinforced by adjectives in -telny.
aile: subtelność
slight, subtle, marginal
çekim: karşılaştırma hienoisempi · üstünlük hienoisin
köken: hieno + -inen
aile: hienoisesti
low, muffled, quiet, soft · hushed, quiet, inaudible
çekim: karşılaştırma halkabb · üstünlük leghalkabb
zıt: hangos, harsány
köken: Of unknown origin.
aile: halkan, halkít, halkság, halkul, félhalk, halk szavú
🔊 Halk szipogásokat hallottam.
🔊 Halk hangon beszélt.
🔊 Halk léptekkel kiment a szobából.
thin · skinny, lean · fine, faint (comprising minute particles)
köken: Compare Arabic دَقِيق (daqīq).
aile: חיידק
very thin · subtle, nice
köken: From hår (“thin”) + fin (“fine”).
thin, fine, delicate · slender, slim · sleazy (of cloth)
çekim: karşılaştırma по́-тъ́нки · üstünlük на́й-тъ́нки
zıt: дебе́л
köken: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic тьнъкъ (tĭnŭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tьnъkъ. Akin to English thin, tight.
aile: възтъ́нък, тъ́нчае
subtle
köken: Borrowed from Latin subtīlis.
aile: subtilesa, subtilment
subtle (not obvious; barely noticeable) · cunning; skilful
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese sotil (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin subtīlis.
aile: sutileza, sutilmente
🔊 c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Glosario. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 652
subtle · fine (made up of small particles)
köken: From French and German subtil, English subtle, all from Latin subtīlis. Compare Italian sottile, Polish subtelny.