mediation

See also: Mediation and médiation

English

Etymology

From Middle English mediacion, mediacioun, medyacion, medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Late Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːdiˈeɪʃən/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌmidiˈeɪʃən/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːdiˈæɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mediation (countable and uncountable, plural mediations)

1. Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 420:

     Perfect unity takes the form of abolishing all institutions of social mediation, including representative democracy and the rule of law as an independent instrument for settling conflicts.

2. The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
3. (Gallicism) Heritage interpretation.

Derived terms

• cybermediation
• hypermediation
• mediational
• telemediation
• transmediation

Related terms

• mediate
• mediator
• mid

Translations

negotiation to resolve differences conducted by some impartial party

• Azerbaijani: münsiflik, vasitəçilik
• Bulgarian: посре́дничество (bg) n (posrédničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調解 / 调解 (zh) (tiáojiě)

• Finnish: välitys (fi), sovittelu (fi)
• German: Vermittlung (de) f
• Indonesian: mediasi (id)
• Romanian: mediere (ro) f
• Russian: посре́дничество (ru) n (posrédničestvo), медиа́ция (ru) f (mediácija)
• Swedish: medling (sv)
• Tamil: மத்தியஸ்தம் (mattiyastam)
• Turkish: arabuluculuk (tr)

the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement

• Bulgarian: посре́дничество (bg) n (posrédničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調解 / 调解 (zh) (tiáojiě)

• Finnish: välitys (fi), sovittelu (fi)
• Romanian: mediere (ro) f
• Russian: посре́дничество (ru) n (posrédničestvo), медиа́ция (ru) f (mediácija)
• Spanish: mediación (es) f
• Ukrainian: медіація f (mediacija), посередництво n (poserednyctvo)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: bemiddeling (nl) f
• Galician: mediación (gl) f
• Greek: μεσολάβηση (el) f (mesolávisi), παρέμβαση (el) f (parémvasi)
• Italian: mediazione (it) f
• Portuguese: mediação (pt) f
• Spanish: mediación (es) f

See also

• arbitration

Further reading

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Mediation”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 204.

Danish

Noun

mediation c (singular definite mediationen, plural indefinite mediationer)

1. mediation

Declension

Declension of mediation

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mediation	mediationen	mediationer	mediationerne
genitive	mediations	mediationens	mediationers	mediationernes

Further reading

• “mediation” in Den Danske Ordbog