mitigar

Borrowed from Latin mītigāre. First attested in 1391.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitiguí, past participle mitigat)

1. (transitive) to mitigate

• mitigació

• “mitigar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mitigar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mitigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mitigar

1. to mitigate

Learned borrowing from Latin mītigāre (“to make ripe”), from mītis (“ripe, mature”) + agō (“do, make”).

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitiguei, past participle mitigado)

1. to mitigate

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• “mitigar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin mītigāre (“to make ripe”), from mītis (“ripe, mature”) + agō (“do, make”).

• IPA^(key): /mitiˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mi‧ti‧gar

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitigué, past participle mitigado)

1. to mitigate, alleviate, allay, assuage, quench
2. to soothe

• “mitigar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16