discreet; tactful · unobtrusive; inconspicuous · unobtrusive; decent (neither gaudy nor alluring)
çekim: karşılaştırma dezenter · üstünlük am dezentesten
eş: edel, filigran, gediegen, unauffällig, unscheinbar, feinfühlig
köken: From French décent.
delicate · difficult, tricky · sensitive, thorny
köken: Inherited from Middle French delicat, borrowed from Latin dēlicātus.
aile: délicatement, délicatesse
İspanyolca 🔊 sutil /suˈtil/ subtle
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish sotil (“thin; subtle”), inherited from Latin subtīlis. Although the Old Spanish term was inherited, and was often used concretely ("thin, fine"), since the early modern period it has been increasingly relegated to abstract uses. The vowel change o > u may be due either to the following i, or due to the influence of the Latin etymon.
aile: sutileza, sutilmente
🔊 La diferencia sutil entre un vocablo y otro juega un papel importante.
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
subtle (hard to grasp) · cunning, skilful
çekim: karşılaştırma subtieler · üstünlük subtielst
köken: From Middle Dutch subtijl, from Old French subtil, from Latin subtīlis, from sub- + tēla (“a web”).
aile: subtiliteit
European Portuguese standard form of sutil
subtle
çekim: karşılaştırma subtilare · üstünlük subtilast
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
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.