emollient
Meaningsoftening
Common meaning: softening
Other meanings: a soothing cream
- eout
- mollsoft, gentleLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1159 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘out’ + ‘soft, gentle’ → emollient
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin mollis ‘soft, gentle’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry mollis, p. 1159 · dictionary scan
Roots
- mollis Latin “soft, gentle”
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