(of foods, flavors, scents, etc.) to sweeten · (of any unpleasant thing) to make (more) agreeable, pleasant, mild, delicate, etc. · (of something physically rough or coarse) to soften, to smooth
çekim: geçmiş adouci · ortaç adouci · şimdiki adoucit · ulaç adoucissant
eş: doucir
köken: Inherited from Old French adoucir, adolcir, from dolz, douz (“sweet”), from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). By surface analysis, a- + doux + -ir.
to alleviate, ease, relieve (pain) · to appease, quench (hunger, thirst) · to calm, quiet, satisfy, soothe
çekim: geçmiş csillapítottak
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from an otherwise unattested onomatopoeic stem + -p (obsolete instantaneous suffix) + -ít (verb-forming suffix). The same stem is found in csillapodik (“to calm down, diminish”) and csillapul (“to calm down”). First attested in 1608.
to set a measure or bounds to; moderate, mitigate, allay, qualify. · to restrain · to manage, arrange, regulate, rule, guide, govern, direct, control. (dative or accusative)
çekim: ortaç moderātus · şimdiki moderātur · ulaç moderāns
köken: Etymology tree Latin *med-der.? Latin *-osder.? Latin moderor From the same root as modus m (“measure, manner”), but not directly derived from this noun, which declines in Latin as a masculine o-stem. The form moderor was presumably built on a neuter s-stem noun derived from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) + *-os (noun-forming suffix), whose existence is also indirectly attested by the…