facilitate

English

Etymology

From French faciliter, from Latin facilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, /fəˈsɪləteɪt/

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Verb

facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

1. To make easy or easier.
   • 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:

     Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.

2. To help bring about.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.

3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Synonyms

• (to make easy or easier): ease

Related terms

• facile
• facilitation
• facilitative

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• facilitator
• facilitatory
• facility

Translations

to make easy or easier

• Arabic: سَهَّلَ‎ (ar) (sahhala)
• Armenian: դյուրացնել (hy) (dyuracʿnel), հեշտացնել (hy) (heštacʿnel)
• Bulgarian: улеснявам (bg) impf (ulesnjavam), благоприятствам (bg) impf (blagoprijatstvam), спомагам (bg) impf (spomagam), спомогна pf (spomogna), улесня (bg) pf (ulesnja), облекчавам (bg) impf (oblekčavam), облекча pf (oblekča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使……容易 (shǐ ... róngyì), 輔助 (zh), 辅助 (zh) (fǔzhù), 促进 (zh) (cùjìn), 幫助 (zh), 帮助 (zh) (bāngzhù)

• Czech: usnadnit (cs), ulehčit
• Danish: facilitere
• Dutch: vergemakkelijken (nl), faciliteren (nl)
• Esperanto: faciligi
• Finnish: helpottaa (fi)
• French: faciliter (fr)
• German: erleichtern (de), fördern (de)
• Greek: διευκολύνω (el) (diefkolýno)
• Italian: facilitare (it), agevolare (it)
• Korean: 일을 용이하게 하다 (ireul yong'ihage hada)
• Kyrgyz: азайтуу (ky) (azaytuu), басаңдатуу (ky) (basañdatuu), жеңилдетүү (ky) (jeñildetüü), оңойлотуу (ky) (oñoylotuu)
• Maori: huawaere, tūāpā

• Norman: faciliter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjøre lettere, forenkle (no)

  Nynorsk: gjere lettare, forenkle, forenkla

• Persian: تسهیل کردن‎ (tashil kardan)
• Polish: ułatwiać (pl), torować (pl), upraszczać (pl)
• Portuguese: facilitar (pt)
• Romanian: facilita (ro), ușura (ro), înlesni (ro)
• Russian: спосо́бствовать (ru) impf (sposóbstvovatʹ), поспосо́бствовать (ru) pf (posposóbstvovatʹ), помога́ть (ru) impf (pomogátʹ), помо́чь (ru) pf (pomóčʹ), облегча́ть (ru) impf (oblexčátʹ), облегчи́ть (ru) pf (oblexčítʹ), соде́йствовать (ru) impf (sodéjstvovatʹ), посоде́йствовать (ru) pf (posodéjstvovatʹ)
• Slovak: uľahčiť
• Spanish: facilitar (es)
• Swedish: underlätta (sv), förenkla (sv)
• Turkish: kolaylaştırmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: поле́гшувати impf (poléhšuvaty), поле́гши́ти pf (poléhšýty), сприя́ти impf (spryjáty)

to help bring about

• Bulgarian: способствам (bg) (sposobstvam)
• Finnish: helpottaa (fi)

• Maori: tūāpā
• Ukrainian: сприя́ти impf (spryjáty)

to preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

• Finnish: johtaa puhetta, johtaa (fi), fasilitoida

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• French: ^{(please verify)} faciliter (fr)

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

facilitate

1. inflection of facilitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

facilitate f pl

1. feminine plural of facilitato

Anagrams

• felicitata

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Latin

Noun

facilitāte

1. ablative singular of facilitās

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin facilitas through French facilité

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fatʃiliˈtate]

Noun

facilitate f (plural facilități)

1. facility

Declension

Declension of facilitate

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) facilitate	facilitatea	(niște) facilități	facilitățile
genitive/dative	(unei) facilități	facilității	(unor) facilități	facilităților
vocative	facilitate, facilitateo		facilităților