Noun: ease
Sample Sentences
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He played the ukelele with ease.
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The ease of lifting the weight, despite lack of skill, came from her pure strength.
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Her young boy lifted a weight with ease too, as that one wasn't too heavy
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The ease with which she passed all the exams surprised her.
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She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
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The pension set her mind at ease.
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There is ease in the soul of Slid and there be calms upon the sea; also, there be storms upon the sea and troubles in the soul of Slid, for the gods have many moods. [1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 16:]
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We took our ease on the patio.
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His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease.
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She dealt with the faculty with combined authority and ease.
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Take one pill every 12 hours to provide ease from pain.
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At ease, soldier!
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Add some ease to the waist measurement.
Nouns inflected like ease
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English ese, eise, aise, from Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), from Old French eise, aise (“elbow room; opportunity”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Apparently related to Provençal ais, Italian agio and asio, Sicilian aciu and Portuguese azo. Sometimes ascribed to Vulgar Latin *āsia or *āsium, possibly from Latin ānsa (“handle, haft”) or Frankish *ansiju (“handle, loophole, eyelet; cup-handle; arms akimbo, elbow room”), but more often derived from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjacēns (“adjacent, neighbouring”), present participle of adjaceō (“lie next to, border on”), though the forms and senses are difficult to trace clearly.
2. Alternatively, possibly from a non-Latin source such as Germanic or Celtic on the basis of the conflicting forms which appear in various Romance languages. Compare Old English īeþe (“easy”), Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹 (azēti, “ease; pleasure”), *𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*azēts, “easy”), Breton eaz, ez (“easy”), Irish adhais (“easy; leisure”). See also eath.
3. The verb is from Middle English esen, ultimately of the same origin. See: Middle English Nouns '
ese', Italian Nouns '
agio', Portuguese Nouns '
azo', Latin Nouns '
ānsa', Latin Nouns '
adiacēns', Old English Nouns '
īeþe', Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹'.