alleviation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English alleviate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English alleviation

From alleviate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌliːviˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

alleviation (countable and uncountable, plural alleviations)

1. The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 660:

     The only light is from a high barred window, and it is not so much light as an alleviation of the murk.

2. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

   Synonyms: relief, solace; see also Thesaurus:consolation

Translations

alleviation — see also relief

• Arabic: تَخْفِيف m (taḵfīf), تَسْكِين m (taskīn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 減輕 / 减轻 (zh) (jiǎnqīng), 緩和 / 缓和 (zh) (huǎnhé)

• French: allégement (fr) m, soulagement (fr) m
• German: Erleichterung (de) f, Linderung (de) f, Milderung f
• Japanese: 軽減 (ja) (けいげん, keigen), 緩和 (ja) (かんわ, kanwa)
• Latin: levamentum n
• Old Church Slavonic: льгꙑни f (lĭgyni)
• Portuguese: alívio (pt) m
• Russian: облегче́ние (ru) n (oblexčénije), смягче́ние (ru) (smjaxčénije)
• Spanish: aliviamiento (es) m
• Swedish: lättnad (sv) c
• Ukrainian: поле́гшення n (poléhšennja)