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améliorer

/a.me.ljɔ.ʁe/

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verb/a.me.ljɔ.ʁe/

to improve, better, ameliorate

Inherited from Old French ameillorer, from a prefixed version of Late Latin meliōrāre, a verb based on Latin meliārī (“better”). The modern French form was modified under Latin influence, hence the otherwise-unexpected /lj/ (instead of /j/ < /ʎ/).