reconciliation

See also: réconciliation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin reconciliatio (“a re-establishing, reinstatement, restoration, renewal, a reconciling, reconciliation”), from reconciliare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃən/

Noun

reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)

1. The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.

   He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again.

2. (theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement.
3. A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.
4. (accounting) Process of matching, comparing and agreeing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement, including list of explainable differences.

Synonyms

• saught

Derived terms

• reconciliation loop

Translations

reestablishment of friendly relations

• Albanian: pajtim (sq) m
• Armenian: հաշտեցում (hy) (haštecʻum)
• Catalan: reconciliació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和解 (zh) (héjiě)

• Czech: usmíření n
• Danish: forsoning
• Dutch: verzoening (nl) f
• Finnish: sopiminen (fi), sovinnonteko
• French: réconciliation (fr) f, raccommodement (fr) m
• Galician: reconciliación (gl) f
• Georgian: შერიგება (šerigeba)
• German: Versöhnung (de) f, Aussöhnung (de) f, Wiederaussöhnung f, Wiederversöhnung f, Schlichtung (de) f
• Greek: συμφιλίωση (el) f (symfilíosi), καταλλαγή (el) (katallagí)

  Ancient: διαλλαγή f (diallagḗ), καταλλαγή f (katallagḗ)

• Indonesian: rekonsiliasi (id)
• Italian: ravvicinamento m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 和解 (ja) (わかい, wakai)
• Korean: 화해 (ko) (hwahae) (和解 (ko))
• Macedonian: помирување n (pomiruvanje)
• Manx: aachaarjaghey m, aachaarjys m, aachoardail m
• Michif: mooshakahkinitoohk
• Ngazidja Comorian: suluhu class 9/10
• Polish: zgoda (pl) f, pojednanie (pl) n, pogodzenie (pl) n, ugoda (pl) f, porozumienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: reconciliação (pt) f, conciliação (pt) f
• Romanian: reconciliere (ro) f, împăcare (ro) f
• Russian: примире́ние (ru) n (primirénije), сближе́ние (ru) n (sbližénije)
• Slovene: sprava f, pobotanje n
• Spanish: reconciliación (es) f
• Swahili: suluhu (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: försoning (sv) c
• Urdu: مفاہمت f (mufāhimat)
• Vietnamese: hoà giải (vi) (和解)

Roman Catholic sacrament

• Catalan: reconciliació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: svátost smíření f, zpověď f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: rippi (fi)
• German: Rekonziliation f
• Polish: rekoncyliacja f
• Portuguese: reconciliação (pt) f

accounting process

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: täsmäyttäminen (fi)
• French: réconciliation (fr) f, rapprochement (fr) m
• German: Abgleich m, Abstimmung (de), Übereinstimmung (de) f, Schlichtung (de) f, Überleitung (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: συμφιλίωση (el) f (symfilíosi)
• Italian: riconciliazione f
• Norwegian: avstemming m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: согласова́ние (ru) n (soglasovánije), све́рка (ru) f (svérka)

References

• reconciliation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia