palliative

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French palliatif, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin *palliativus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin palliare (“to cloak”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pallium (“a cloak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪətɪv/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpæli.eɪtɪv/, /ˈpæli.ətɪv/

Adjective

palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most palliative)

1. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
2. (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

Related terms

• palliate
• palliation

Translations

reducing progression and relieving symptoms

• Catalan: pal·liatiu
• Czech: paliativní (cs)
• Finnish: palliatiivinen (fi), oireita lievittävä
• French: palliatif (fr)
• German: palliativ (de), beschönigend (de), lindernd (de)
• Greek: καταπραϋντικός (el) (katapraÿntikós)
• Hebrew: מקל (he) m (makel)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: paliativa (io)
• Italian: palliativo (it)
• Japanese: 緩和 (ja) (かんわ, kanwa)
• Portuguese: paliativo (pt) m, paliativa f
• Russian: паллиати́вный (ru) (palliatívnyj)
• Spanish: paliativo (es)
• Swedish: lindrande (sv)

Noun

palliative (plural palliatives)

1. (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

   The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.

See also

• Palliative care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “palliative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “palliative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “palliative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Adjective

palliative

1. feminine singular of palliatif

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German

Adjective

palliative

1. inflection of palliativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Adjective

palliative

1. feminine plural of palliativo