reconcile

English

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 (sq)
• Armenian: հաշտվել (hy) (haštvel), բարիշել (hy) (barišel) (colloquial)
• Czech: usmířit se, smířit se, smířit
• Dutch: reconciliëren, verzoenen (nl)
• Finnish: sovitella (fi)
• French: réconcilier (fr)
• German: versöhnen (de)
• Greek: συμφιλιώνω (el) (symfilióno)
• Italian: riconciliare, rappacificare (it), riunire (it), conciliare (it)
• Japanese: 和解させる (ja) (wakai saseru), 仲直りさせる (nakanaori saseru)

• Ngazidja Comorian: usuluhisha
• Norwegian: forsone
• Polish: pogodzić (pl) pf, pogodzić się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: reconciliar (pt)
• Romanian: reconcilia (ro), împăca (ro)
• Russian: помири́ться (ru) pf (pomirítʹsja), помирить (ru) pf (pomiritʹ)
• Spanish: reconciliar (es)
• Swahili: kupatanisha
• Thai: คืนดี (th), คืนดี (th)

to make things compatible or consistent

• Czech: sladit (cs), srovnat (cs)
• Dutch: verzoenen (nl)
• French: réconcilier (fr)
• Greek: συμβιβάζω (el) (symvivázo)

• Italian: riconciliare, conciliare (it), quagliare
• 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

• Czech: vyrovnat, srovnat (cs), urovnat

• Esperanto: bilanci
• Italian: quadrare (it)