Where does “mitigation” come from?
Mitigation comes from Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio, derived from the past participle mitigatus of mitigo, meaning to soften, from mitis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European meyh₁-.
mitigation (English): A reduction or decrease of something harmful or...
Definitions
- A reduction or decrease of something harmful or...
Ancestry of “mitigation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | mitigation | — |
| 2 | Latin | mitigatio | softening, soothing; mitigating, mitigation |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |