smooth
smooth
adj.
P. and V. λεῖος, V. λευρός.
Glossy: Ar. and P. λῐπᾰρός.
Level: P. ὁμαλός.
Polished: Ar. and V. ξεστός.
Of the sea: V. ἀ̆κύ̄μων, γᾰληνός ; see calm.
Met., soft, gentle: P. and V. λεῖος (Plat.), πρᾶος, ἥσῠχος, ἤπιος, Ar. and P. μᾰλᾰκός, Ar. and V. μαλθᾰκός.
Easy: P. and V. ῥᾴδιος, εὐπετής (Plat.); see easy.
Affable: see affable.
adj.
P. and V. λεῖος, V. λευρός.
Glossy: Ar. and P. λῐπᾰρός.
Level: P. ὁμαλός.
Polished: Ar. and V. ξεστός.
Of the sea: V. ἀ̆κύ̄μων, γᾰληνός ; see calm.
Met., soft, gentle: P. and V. λεῖος (Plat.), πρᾶος, ἥσῠχος, ἤπιος, Ar. and P. μᾰλᾰκός, Ar. and V. μαλθᾰκός.
Easy: P. and V. ῥᾴδιος, εὐπετής (Plat.); see easy.
Affable: see affable.
smooth
v. trans.
P. λειαίνειν (Plat.).
Level: P. ὁμαλύνειν (Plat.).
Smooth the brow: Ar. χαλᾶν μέτωπον (Vesp. 655).
Smooth your brow: V. μέθες νυν ὀφρύν (Eur. I.A. 648).
Smoothing your angered brow: V. στυγνὴν ὀφρὺν λύσασα (Eur. Hipp. 290).
Soften: P. and V. πρᾱΰνειν ; see soften.
Calm: P. and V. κοιμίζειν (Plat.), V. κοιμᾶν.
White at the same time we smooth the way to empire for them: P. τῆς ἀρχῆς ἅμα προκοπτόντων ἐκείνοις (Thuc. 4.60).
v. trans.
P. λειαίνειν (Plat.).
Level: P. ὁμαλύνειν (Plat.).
Smooth the brow: Ar. χαλᾶν μέτωπον (Vesp. 655).
Smooth your brow: V. μέθες νυν ὀφρύν (Eur. I.A. 648).
Smoothing your angered brow: V. στυγνὴν ὀφρὺν λύσασα (Eur. Hipp. 290).
Soften: P. and V. πρᾱΰνειν ; see soften.
Calm: P. and V. κοιμίζειν (Plat.), V. κοιμᾶν.
White at the same time we smooth the way to empire for them: P. τῆς ἀρχῆς ἅμα προκοπτόντων ἐκείνοις (Thuc. 4.60).
SMOOTH
adj. PROP.
Not rough levis (general term opposed to asper; ☞ but in the sense of “without hair ” it is only poetical): levigatus: politus (rendered smooth polished). To make smooth levigare: polire.
Slippery lubricus.
Without hair bald (by nature) sine pilo or pilis: pilo carens: (by artificial means) depilatus (general term deprived of hair): rasus: tonsus (shaven shorn; opposed to intonsus): glaber (PROP. naturally smooth without hair; opposed to pilosus; then also rendered smooth by shaving or plucking off the hair). Figuratively.
Bland mild blandus (e.g. words a tongue): mendax (lying).
Flowing soft (of style) fluens.
Easy Vid.
adj. PROP.
Not rough levis (general term opposed to asper; ☞ but in the sense of “without hair ” it is only poetical): levigatus: politus (rendered smooth polished). To make smooth levigare: polire.
Slippery lubricus.
Without hair bald (by nature) sine pilo or pilis: pilo carens: (by artificial means) depilatus (general term deprived of hair): rasus: tonsus (shaven shorn; opposed to intonsus): glaber (PROP. naturally smooth without hair; opposed to pilosus; then also rendered smooth by shaving or plucking off the hair). Figuratively.
Bland mild blandus (e.g. words a tongue): mendax (lying).
Flowing soft (of style) fluens.
Easy Vid.
v. PROP.
To free from roughness levigare more rarely levare (general term): polire (so that the thing smoothed receives a polish; also of the smoothness of style etc. ☞ Both levigare and polire are used of making smooth with a knife a file pumice-stone or in any other manner): limare (to file): runcinare (to plane): fricare (to smooth by rubbing; e.g. pavimentum): radere (to scrape rub with pumice stone; Vid: Mart. 1 118):
To level Vid:
To facilitate Vid: SMOOTHLY.
Not roughly by circumlocution with the adjective (☞ leviter does not occur).
With soft language leniter: blande: comiter: benigne. Vid: GENTLY.
To free from roughness levigare more rarely levare (general term): polire (so that the thing smoothed receives a polish; also of the smoothness of style etc. ☞ Both levigare and polire are used of making smooth with a knife a file pumice-stone or in any other manner): limare (to file): runcinare (to plane): fricare (to smooth by rubbing; e.g. pavimentum): radere (to scrape rub with pumice stone; Vid: Mart. 1 118):
To level Vid:
To facilitate Vid: SMOOTHLY.
Not roughly by circumlocution with the adjective (☞ leviter does not occur).
With soft language leniter: blande: comiter: benigne. Vid: GENTLY.
smooth (adj.):
A. Lit.:
I. Not rough:
1. lēvis, e (opp. asper): certain small bodies s., others rough, corpuscula quaedam levia, alia aspera, Cic. N. D. 1, 24. 66. Of the human body (= youthful, beautiful): Galatea, s.er than shells worn by the constant wave, levior assiduo detritis aequore conchis, Ov. M. 13, 791: s. breast, brow, l. pectus, frons, Virg.: s. neck, l. colla, Ov. Of the hair: that the hair may be s. by using the comb, ut sit coma pectore l., Ov, M. 12, 409 (v.GLOSSY ): see also POLISHED (I.).
2. ēnōdis, e (without knots): s. trunks (of trees), e. trunci, Virg. G. 2, 78.
3. lūbrĭcus (slippery): the leg worn s. by fetters, crus l. compede, Mart. 9. 58: a sphinx wrought out s. from the natural rock, sphinx saxo naturali elaborata et lubrica (but v. l. rubrica), Plin. 36, 12, 17, § 77.
4. tĕres, ĕtis (well-turned, rounded off): s. trunks of trees, t. trunci arborum, Virg. Aen. 6, 207: cf. t. virga, Ov.: t. hastile, Liv.: t. lapillus, Ov.
5. lēvĭgātus (made smooth: part. of levigo, 1): Macr. S. 1, 12.
6. rāsĭlis, e: box made smooth with the lathe, torno r. buxum, Virg. G. 2. 449: cf. palmes r. (i. e. deprived of the bark), Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 206: Cat.: Ov.
7. ădēsus (worn away by water): a. lapides, Hor. Od. 3, 29, 36: a. scopulus, Ov. H. 10, 26.
II. Without hair, bald:
1. glāber, bra, brum (of men and beasts: gen. naturally smooth, but also artificially s.): s., either from the hair worn down or from its being plucked out by the roots, glaber, retritis pilis aut penitus evulsis, Sen. Ep. 47, ad med.: a husband s.er than a gourd, maritus cucurbita glabrior, App. M. 5, p. 163: sheep of a s. belly, oves ventre g., Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6: cf. g. colla boum, Col. 6, 14, 7. Dimin. glabellus: g. corpus Cupidinis, App. M. 5, p. 168: a s.-skinned slave, glaber, Cat. 59 (61), 135: to make s. (or bald), glabro, Col. 12, 3, 4: to become s., glabresco, id. 2, 20, 2.
2. lēnis, e: Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a s. man, Esau frater meus pilosus est, et ego lenis, Vulg. Gen. xxvii. 11.
3. calvus: v.BALD .
III. Calm, gentle: (of the sea) plăcĭdus, tranquillus, pācātus (v.CALM ): (of rivers) sēdātus (v. CALM ): clēmens, mītis (v GENTLE ).
B. Fig.:
I. Of the voice or style, flowing, without impediment
1. lēvis (flowing): l. oratio (opp. aspera), Cic. Or. 5, 20: l. et aspera (vox), Quint. 11, 3, 15 the ears are annoyed by an uneven style. are soothed by a s. one, (aures) fragosis offenduntur et levibus mulcentur, Quint. 9, 4, 116.
2. tĕres, ĕtis: a s. voice in debates, t. vox in disputationibus, Quint. 11. 3, 64: a speech full, but yet s. (or well-rounded off, polished), oratio plena, sed tamen t., Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199: v. POLISHED (II.), ELEGANT .
3. lēnis, e: Join: the s. arrangement of a speech, l. et fluens contextus orationis, Quint. 9, 4, 127. See alsoFLUENT , FLOWING . Also in Gramm. the s. breathing, l. spiritus (opp. spiritus asper). Prisc. p. 572, P.
II. Of the temper, equable: aequābĭlis, aequālis, aequus: v.UNIFORM .
III. Smooth-tongued (usu. in bad sense) blandus: to distinguish a s. friend from a true one, b. amicum a vero secernere, Cic. Am. 25, 95 (v.FLATTERING , FALSE , SPECIOUS ).
IV. Of manners, smooth: cōmis, commŏdus: v.AFFABLE , AGREEABLE .
A. Lit.:
I. Not rough:
1. lēvis, e (opp. asper): certain small bodies s., others rough, corpuscula quaedam levia, alia aspera, Cic. N. D. 1, 24. 66. Of the human body (= youthful, beautiful): Galatea, s.er than shells worn by the constant wave, levior assiduo detritis aequore conchis, Ov. M. 13, 791: s. breast, brow, l. pectus, frons, Virg.: s. neck, l. colla, Ov. Of the hair: that the hair may be s. by using the comb, ut sit coma pectore l., Ov, M. 12, 409 (v.
2. ēnōdis, e (without knots): s. trunks (of trees), e. trunci, Virg. G. 2, 78.
3. lūbrĭcus (slippery): the leg worn s. by fetters, crus l. compede, Mart. 9. 58: a sphinx wrought out s. from the natural rock, sphinx saxo naturali elaborata et lubrica (but v. l. rubrica), Plin. 36, 12, 17, § 77.
4. tĕres, ĕtis (well-turned, rounded off): s. trunks of trees, t. trunci arborum, Virg. Aen. 6, 207: cf. t. virga, Ov.: t. hastile, Liv.: t. lapillus, Ov.
5. lēvĭgātus (made smooth: part. of levigo, 1): Macr. S. 1, 12.
6. rāsĭlis, e: box made smooth with the lathe, torno r. buxum, Virg. G. 2. 449: cf. palmes r. (i. e. deprived of the bark), Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 206: Cat.: Ov.
7. ădēsus (worn away by water): a. lapides, Hor. Od. 3, 29, 36: a. scopulus, Ov. H. 10, 26.
II. Without hair, bald:
1. glāber, bra, brum (of men and beasts: gen. naturally smooth, but also artificially s.): s., either from the hair worn down or from its being plucked out by the roots, glaber, retritis pilis aut penitus evulsis, Sen. Ep. 47, ad med.: a husband s.er than a gourd, maritus cucurbita glabrior, App. M. 5, p. 163: sheep of a s. belly, oves ventre g., Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6: cf. g. colla boum, Col. 6, 14, 7. Dimin. glabellus: g. corpus Cupidinis, App. M. 5, p. 168: a s.-skinned slave, glaber, Cat. 59 (61), 135: to make s. (
2. lēnis, e: Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a s. man, Esau frater meus pilosus est, et ego lenis, Vulg. Gen. xxvii. 11.
3. calvus: v.
III. Calm, gentle: (of the sea) plăcĭdus, tranquillus, pācātus (v.
B. Fig.:
I. Of the voice or style, flowing, without impediment
1. lēvis (flowing): l. oratio (opp. aspera), Cic. Or. 5, 20: l. et aspera (vox), Quint. 11, 3, 15 the ears are annoyed by an uneven style. are soothed by a s. one, (aures) fragosis offenduntur et levibus mulcentur, Quint. 9, 4, 116.
2. tĕres, ĕtis: a s. voice in debates, t. vox in disputationibus, Quint. 11. 3, 64: a speech full, but yet s. (
3. lēnis, e: Join: the s. arrangement of a speech, l. et fluens contextus orationis, Quint. 9, 4, 127. See also
II. Of the temper, equable: aequābĭlis, aequālis, aequus: v.
III. Smooth-tongued (usu. in bad sense) blandus: to distinguish a s. friend from a true one, b. amicum a vero secernere, Cic. Am. 25, 95 (v.
IV. Of manners, smooth: cōmis, commŏdus: v.
smooth (v.):
I. To remove rough-*ness from a surface:
1. lēvo, 1: to s. tables, l. mensas, Stat. Th. 1, 519. Join: to s. beams, l. ac radere tigna, Lucr. 5, 1265.
2. allēvo, 1 (only in Colum.) to s. knots and scars, nodos et circatrices a., Col. 3, 15, 3.
3. lēvĭgo, 1 (of making smooth with a knife, file, pumice-stone, chalk, etc.: so polio, infr.): all the walls are s.'d with plaster, omnes parietes tectorio levigantur, Varr. R. R. 3, 11, 3, med.: for s.ing the skin, ad levigandam cutem, Plin. 20, 3. 10, § 20.
4. pŏlio, īvi and ii, ītum, 4 (like levigo): to s. dove-cotes with plaster, p. columbarum cellas tectorio, Col. 8, 8: v.TO POLISH .
5. līmo, 1 (to file): v.TO FILE .
6. runcīno, 1 (to plane): v.TO PLANE .
7. rādo, rāsi, rāsum, 3 (to s. off): to s. (or polish) stones, r. lapides, Hor. S. 2, 4, 83: v. supr. (I.): v. TO SHAVE OFF .
8. sterno. stravi, strātum, 3 (to spread out flat, fig.): to s. the surface of the waters, s. aequor aquis, Virg. Aen. 8, 89: cf. placidi straverunt aequora venti, ib. 5, 763: to s. (or pave) a path through the sea, sternere viam per mare, Lucr. 3, 1042: cf. tranquillo, etc. (v. TO CALM ). Phr.: paper s.'d with a tooth, charta dentata, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15: Plin. 13, 12, 25. § 81: s.'d with pumice, morsu pumicis politus, Mart. 8, 72, 2: also, pumicatus, e. g. p. manus, Mart. 5, 41, 6: to s. the brow (i.e. cheer up), frontem remittere (opp. frontem adducere), Plin. Ep. 2, 5, ad med.: fr. exporrigere, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 53: fr. explicare, Hor. Od. 3, 29, 16: fr. solvere, Mart. 14, 183. See also TO LEVEL , and for other senses, TO SOFTEN . [N.B.--For to s. linen, v. TO IRON , TO MANGLE (II.).]
II. To s. away obstacles, to facilitate:
1. sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3: fame propitious hath s.'d a kindly path for thee, praesens tibi fama benignum stravit iter, Stat. Th. 12, 813: cf. aditus, iter expedire, Caes.: so munio, praemunio (v.TO PAVE ): v. TO FACILITATE .
2. complāno, 1: Join: to s. (or render tolerable) the rough, the harsh, c. et mollire aspera, dura, Sen. Prov. 5, fin.: see also TO ALLEVIATE , MITIGATE , SOOTHE (I.). Phr.: these difficulties were s.'d away by two circumstances, his difficultatibus duae res erant subsidio, Caes. B. G. 2, 20.
III. To palliate, smooth a fault: v.TO PALLIATE , EXTENUATE .
IV. To flatter (Shakesp.): v.TO FLATTER .
I. To remove rough-*ness from a surface:
1. lēvo, 1: to s. tables, l. mensas, Stat. Th. 1, 519. Join: to s. beams, l. ac radere tigna, Lucr. 5, 1265.
2. allēvo, 1 (only in Colum.) to s. knots and scars, nodos et circatrices a., Col. 3, 15, 3.
3. lēvĭgo, 1 (of making smooth with a knife, file, pumice-stone, chalk, etc.: so polio, infr.): all the walls are s.'d with plaster, omnes parietes tectorio levigantur, Varr. R. R. 3, 11, 3, med.: for s.ing the skin, ad levigandam cutem, Plin. 20, 3. 10, § 20.
4. pŏlio, īvi and ii, ītum, 4 (like levigo): to s. dove-cotes with plaster, p. columbarum cellas tectorio, Col. 8, 8: v.
5. līmo, 1 (to file): v.
6. runcīno, 1 (to plane): v.
7. rādo, rāsi, rāsum, 3 (to s. off): to s. (
8. sterno. stravi, strātum, 3 (to spread out flat, fig.): to s. the surface of the waters, s. aequor aquis, Virg. Aen. 8, 89: cf. placidi straverunt aequora venti, ib. 5, 763: to s. (
II. To s. away obstacles, to facilitate:
1. sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3: fame propitious hath s.'d a kindly path for thee, praesens tibi fama benignum stravit iter, Stat. Th. 12, 813: cf. aditus, iter expedire, Caes.: so munio, praemunio (v.
2. complāno, 1: Join: to s. (
III. To palliate, smooth a fault: v.
IV. To flatter (Shakesp.): v.
λεῖος
smooth, plain, not embroidered
smooth, polish off
λίς2
(Ep.) smooth
λίσπος
smooth, polished
λεαίνω
to smooth
λειώδης
smooth
λευρός
smooth, level, even
λισσάς
smooth, bare
λισσός
smooth
λιτός
smooth, plain
ξέω
to smooth
ξύσιλος
shaven, smooth
ξύω
to scrape, plane, smooth
παραλεαίνω
smooth, polish
σμηρίζω
smooth
τετανός
straightened, smooth
τριμματολογέω
smooth, polish
ἀκατάξεστος
not hewn, smooth
ἀπολεαίνω
smooth
ἀφελής
without a stone, even, smooth
ἐπικαταψήχω
smooth
ἐπιλειόω
smooth off, shave smooth
ὑπόλισπος
somewhat smooth, worn smooth
smooth, plain, not embroidered
appearing fewer than 50 times
διαξέωsmooth, polish off
λίς2
(Ep.) smooth
λίσπος
smooth, polished
λεαίνω
to smooth
λειώδης
smooth
λευρός
smooth, level, even
λισσάς
smooth, bare
λισσός
smooth
λιτός
smooth, plain
ξέω
to smooth
ξύσιλος
shaven, smooth
ξύω
to scrape, plane, smooth
παραλεαίνω
smooth, polish
σμηρίζω
smooth
τετανός
straightened, smooth
τριμματολογέω
smooth, polish
ἀκατάξεστος
not hewn, smooth
ἀπολεαίνω
smooth
ἀφελής
without a stone, even, smooth
ἐπικαταψήχω
smooth
ἐπιλειόω
smooth off, shave smooth
ὑπόλισπος
somewhat smooth, worn smooth
polio
to smooth, furbish, polish
rado
to scrape, scratch, shave, rub, smooth, shave off
teres
rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth
expolio
to smooth, polish, finish, adorn, embellish, refine, elaborate
free from knots, smooth
equitabilis
fit for riding, smooth
expolitus
polished, smooth
glaber
smooth
levis2
smooth, smoothed, not rough
rasilis
scraped, smoothed, polished, smooth
to smooth, furbish, polish
rado
to scrape, scratch, shave, rub, smooth, shave off
teres
rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth
expolio
to smooth, polish, finish, adorn, embellish, refine, elaborate
appearing fewer than 50 times
enodisfree from knots, smooth
equitabilis
fit for riding, smooth
expolitus
polished, smooth
glaber
smooth
levis2
smooth, smoothed, not rough
rasilis
scraped, smoothed, polished, smooth