mitigatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mītis

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-der.

Proto-Italic *-aks

Latin -ex

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -igō

Latin mītigō

Latin mītigātus

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin mītigātiō

From mītigātus (“softened, pacified”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [miː.tɪˈɡaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mi.tiˈɡat.t͡si.o]

Noun

mītigātiō f (genitive mītigātiōnis); third declension

1. softening, soothing
2. mitigating, mitigation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mītigātiō	mītigātiōnēs
genitive	mītigātiōnis	mītigātiōnum
dative	mītigātiōnī	mītigātiōnibus
accusative	mītigātiōnem	mītigātiōnēs
ablative	mītigātiōne	mītigātiōnibus
vocative	mītigātiō	mītigātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: mitigació
• English: mitigation
• French: mitigation
• Galician: mitigación
• Italian: mitigazione
• Portuguese: mitigação
• Romanian: mitigație
• Spanish: mitigación

References

• “mitigatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mitigatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mitigatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.