agevole

Italian

Etymology

Either:

agio (“ease”) +‎ -evole.[1]
Latin agibilem,[2] cognate with English and French agible (“doable”, archaic).

Adjective

agevole (masculine and feminine plural agevoli)

easy
smooth (road surface, etc.)

Antonyms

(easy): disagevole, malagevole

Derived terms

References

Vocabulario Treccani
Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “agevole”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

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