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suave (adj.)
early 15c., "gracious, kindly," from Middle French
suave
, from Latin
suavis
"agreeable," from PIE root
*swad-
(see
sweet
). In reference to persons, sense of "smoothly agreeable" first recorded 1815 (in
suavity
).
