lenire

lenire is a Latin form of lenio, meaning “soften, soothe, calm”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 6.13.1: … uvandi tui causa scribere ad te aliquid pro nostra amicitia oportebat, tamen adhuc id non feceram, quia neque lenire videbar oratione neque levare posse dolorem tuum. postea vero quam magnam spem habere coepi fore ut te brevi …

All forms of lenio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.