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facile

adj.
US //ˈfæsəɫ// UK //fˈæsaɪl// facile Archaic Vulgar
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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis (“easy to do, easy, doable”), from Latin facere (“to do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”) Compare Spanish fácil (“easy”). First use appears c. 1484 in a translation by William Caxton.

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