suave

From Middle French suave, from Latin suāvis (“sweet”).

• Rhymes: -ɑːv, -eɪv

suave (comparative suaver, superlative suavest)

1. Charming, confident and elegant.

• suavely

suave (plural suaves)

1. Sweet talk.

• Paternoster, Lewis M. and Frager-Stone, Ruth. Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth. Second Edition. Amsco School Publications: USA. 1998.

• Sauve, Vause, uveas

From Middle French suave, a borrowing from Latin suāvis (“sweet”). Displaced Old French soef, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /sɥav/

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suave (plural suaves)

1. smooth, suave

• “suave” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

suave (masculine and feminine plural suavi)

1. variant of soave

• suavità

suāve

1. nominative neuter singular of suāvis
2. accusative neuter singular of suāvis
3. vocative neuter singular of suāvis

suāve

1. sweetly, agreeably, pleasantly

• suāviter

• suave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• suave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin suavis (“sweet”), from Proto-Italic *swādwis (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus (“sweet”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈswa.vɨ/
• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ve
• Rhymes: -avi

suave m or f (plural suaves, comparable)

1. soft, smooth
2. gentle, mild
3. (Brazil, slang) fine, okay

• suavizar

• suavidade
• suavizante

From Latin suāvis (“sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈswabe/, [ˈswaβe]

suave (plural suaves)

1. soft, smooth
2. suave (charming, confident and elegant)

   Synonyms: terso, blando, liso

   Antonyms: áspero, duro

3. cool, acceptable, easy

• suavemente
• suavísimo
• suavecito
• suavizante
• suavizar

• suavidad
• suavo

• “suave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.