mitigatio

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

mītigātiō f (genitive mītigātiōnis); third declension

1. softening, soothing
2. mitigating, mitigation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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.