Translation
to be lenient with, to spare, to go easy on
Word origin
From Latin indulgere, to be kind or to concede, the same verb that gave English indulge and indulgence. Esperanto kept the older courtroom sense of going easy on somebody rather than the modern English sense of treating yourself.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- indulgere
- English cognates
- indulge, indulgence
Examples
.
The king was lenient with the young robber.
; .
Do not go easy on yourself; work harder.
.
She was lenient with the children and did not punish them.
takes a direct object, and the object is the person let off:
. It sits between , which wipes the offence
away, and , which does not. Watch the middle of the word: the
in is not the -- suffix that makes people out of qualities.
The root is the whole Latin indulg-, and there is no - plus --
lurking inside it, however much the spelling teases.
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