mediate

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The adjective is first attested in the 1440s in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Swedish: medelbar — acting through a mediating agency
• Swedish: indirekt — acting through a mediating agency
• Bulgarian: посреднича (posredniča) — resolve differences
• Chinese Mandarin: 經調解達成 /经调解达成 (jīng tiáojiě dáchéng) — resolve differences
• Finnish: sovitella — resolve differences
• Finnish: toimia välittäjänä — resolve differences
• Finnish: välittää — resolve differences
• German: schlichten — resolve differences
• Ancient Greek: μεσιτεύω (mesiteúō) — resolve differences
• Italian: mediare — resolve differences
• Romanian: media — resolve differences
• Serbo-Croatian: pòsredovati — resolve differences
• Spanish: mediar — resolve differences
• Swedish: medla — resolve differences
• Swedish: förhandla — resolve differences
• Swedish: förlika — resolve differences
• Chinese Mandarin: 調解 /调解 (tiáojiě) — intervene between conflicting parties
• Esperanto: peri — intervene between conflicting parties
• Finnish: sovitella — intervene between conflicting parties
• Finnish: välittää — intervene between conflicting parties
• German: vermitteln — intervene between conflicting parties
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌼𐍉𐌽 (midumōn) — intervene between conflicting parties
• Greek: μεσολαβώ (mesolavó) — intervene between conflicting parties
• Hungarian: közbenjár — intervene between conflicting parties
• Hungarian: közvetít — intervene between conflicting parties
• Italian: mediare — intervene between conflicting parties
• Macedonian: посредува (posreduva) — intervene between conflicting parties
• Serbo-Croatian: pòsredovati — intervene between conflicting parties
• Spanish: mediar — intervene between conflicting parties
• Spanish: terciar — intervene between conflicting parties
• Swedish: medla — intervene between conflicting parties
• Latvian: būt par vidutāju — act as communicative agent
• Spanish: vehicular — act as communicative agent
• Ukrainian: опосередко́вувати (oposeredkóvuvaty) — act as communicative agent
• Ukrainian: опосередкува́ти (oposeredkuváty) — act as communicative agent