aliviar

/aliˈbjaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to relieve, alleviate, unburden

🪶 Shares a root with alleviate: Latin levis, light, so aliviar = make lighter

From Latin alleviare, built on levis meaning light, the same root as levity and lever. To aliviar a pain or a burden is to make it lighter. Te alivia means it eases you.

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