reconcile

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Etymology

From Latin reconciliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/

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Verb

reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)

1. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

   to reconcile people who have quarrelled

2. To make things compatible or consistent.

   to reconcile differences

   • Alexander Pope

     Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.

   • John Locke

     The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.

3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Derived terms

• reconciliation

Translations

to restore a friendly relationship

• Albanian: pajtoj
• Armenian: հաշտվել (haštvel), բարիշել (barišel) (colloquial)
• Czech: usmířit se
• Dutch: reconcilieren, verzoenen (nl)
• Finnish: sovitella

• French: réconcilier (fr)
• German: 1. schlichten (de), versöhnen 2./3. abstimmen (de)
• Romanian: reconcilia (ro), împăca (ro)
• Spanish: reconciliar (es)

to make things compatible or consistent

• Dutch: verzoenen (nl)
• Portuguese: reconciliar (pt)

• Quechua: allipanakuy
• Romanian: reconcilia (ro)

to make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance

• Esperanto: bilanci

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