mitigate

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• /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
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From Middle English mitigat(e) (“mitigated”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten and of mitigate in Early Modern English), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh1y- (“mild, soft”).

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: смекчавам (smekčavam) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Bulgarian: облекчавам (oblekčavam) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Catalan: mitigar — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Chinese Mandarin: 缓解 (huǎnjiě) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Chinese Mandarin: 减少 (jiǎnshǎo) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Czech: zmírnit — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Czech: snížit — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Danish: mitigere — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Danish: dæmpe — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Danish: lindre — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Dutch: mitigeren — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Dutch: verzachten — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Esperanto: mildigi — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Finnish: lieventää — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Finnish: helpottaa — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• French: réduire — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• French: atténuer — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• French: mitiger — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• German: mildern — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• German: abschwächen — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• German: abmildern — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• German: lindern — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Hungarian: csökkent — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Italian: mitigare — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Italian: limitare — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Latin: mītigō — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Māori: whakamauru — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Norwegian Bokmål: lindre — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Norwegian Bokmål: formilde — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Norwegian Bokmål: avbøte — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Polish: złagodzić — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Polish: zminimalizować — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Polish: zmniejszyć — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Portuguese: mitigar — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Portuguese: atenuar — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Portuguese: pacificar — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Romanian: atenua — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Russian: смягча́ть (smjaxčátʹ) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Russian: уменьша́ть (umenʹšátʹ) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Russian: умеря́ть (umerjátʹ) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Russian: сде́рживать (sdérživatʹ) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Russian: облегча́ть (oblexčátʹ) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Spanish: mitigar — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Swedish: lindra — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Swedish: mildra — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: azaltmak — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: dindirmek — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: hafifletmek — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: yumuşatmak — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: yatıştırmak — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Turkish: tadil etmek — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Ukrainian: пом'якшувати (pomʺjakšuvaty) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Ukrainian: полегшувати (polehšuvaty) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Ukrainian: зменшувати (zmenšuvaty) — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Vietnamese: giảm nhẹ — to reduce, lessen, or decrease
• Vietnamese: giảm thiểu — to reduce, lessen, or decrease