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ITALIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

olire.

to smell sweetly

5 characters3 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

verb/oˈli.re/
  1. to smell sweetly

    no-past-participle · obsolete · poetic
  2. to be redolent (of)

    figuratively · no-past-participle · obsolete · poetic
    Era il nostro parlare negli antichi tempi rozzo e grosso e materiale, e molto piú oliva di contado che di città.
Where this word comes from

From Latin olēre (with a later change in a conjugation), from an earlier form olō, from Proto-Italic *odō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell”). Doublet of aulire.

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