allevo

• IPA^(key): /alˈlɛ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛvo
• Hyphenation: al‧lè‧vo

allevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of allevare

• avello, levalo

From ad- +‎ levō (“lift up, raise”), from levis (“light”).

• adlevō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈal.lɛ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.le.vo]

allevō (present infinitive allevāre, perfect active allevāvī, supine allevātum); first conjugation

1. to lift or set up, raise

   Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, scandō, efferō, surgō, ēdō, sublīmō

   Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō

2. (figuratively) to lighten, lessen, alleviate, mitigate, reduce

   Synonyms: lēniō, dēlēniō, commītigō, plācō, mānsuēscō, mānsuētō, mānsuēfaciō, permulceō, restinguō, mītigō, levō, alleviō, molliō

   Antonyms: dūrō, obdūrō

3. (figuratively) to sustain, comfort, console
4. (figuratively) to raise up, make distinguished; enhance

• (alleviate): alleviō, levō

• allevāmentum
• allevātiō
• allevātor

• Corsican: addivà
• Italian: allevare
• Sicilian: aḍḍivari
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *allevus (“noun”)
  • Italian: allievo
  • Sicilian: aḍḍevu

From ad- +‎ lēvō (“make smooth”), from lēvis (“smooth”).

• adlēvō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [alˈleː.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈlɛː.vo]

allēvō (present infinitive allēvāre, perfect active allēvāvī, supine allēvātum); first conjugation

1. to make smooth, smooth off or over

   Synonyms: lēvō, lēvigō

• (alleviate): lēvō

• “allevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• allevo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.