tolerate

English

Etymology

From Latin tolerātus (past participle), from tolerō (“I endure”). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear”). More at thole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑl.ə.ɹeɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹeɪt/

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Verb

1. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

   Synonyms: allow, bear, brook, endure, live with, put up with; see also Thesaurus:tolerate

   I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.

   I can tolerate working on Saturdays, but not on Sundays.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).

Related terms

• tolerability
• tolerable
• tolerance
• tolerant
• toleration

Translations

to allow without interference

• Arabic: اِحْتَمَلَ (iḥtamala)

  Egyptian Arabic: احتمل (iḥtamal)

• Armenian: հանդուրժել (hy) (handuržel)
• Bulgarian: толерирам (bg) (toleriram), търпя (bg) (tǎrpja)
• Catalan: tolerar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忍受 (zh) (rěnshòu)

• Czech: tolerovat (cs)
• Dutch: verdragen (nl), tolereren (nl), toelaten (nl), dulden (nl), gedogen (nl)
• Finnish: suvaita (fi), sietää (fi)
• French: tolérer (fr), supporter (fr)
• Galician: tolerar (gl)
• Georgian: თმენა (tmena), დაშვება (dašveba)
• German: tolerieren (de), dulden (de), vertragen (de)
• Haitian Creole: sipòte
• Hebrew: סָבַל (he) (savál)
• Hindi: सहना (hi) (sahnā)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: tolerar (io)
• Italian: tollerare (it)
• Japanese: 黙認する (もくにんする, mokunin-surú)
• Korean: 참는다 (chamneunda)
• Latin: tolerō
• Luxembourgish: dëllen
• Macedonian: трпи (trpi), поднесува (podnesuva), толерира (tolerira)
• Norwegian: tolerere, tåle (no)
• Old English: ābīdan
• Portuguese: tolerar (pt), aguentar (pt)
• Romanian: tolera (ro), suporta (ro), îngădui (ro)
• Russian: терпе́ть (ru) impf (terpétʹ), вы́терпеть (ru) pf (výterpetʹ), допуска́ть (ru) impf (dopuskátʹ), допусти́ть (ru) pf (dopustítʹ)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tolerěrowaś impf

• Spanish: tolerar (es), soportar (es)
• Swedish: tolerera (sv)
• Telugu: సహించు (te) (sahiñcu)

Further reading

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

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Esperanto

Adverb

tolerate

1. present adverbial passive participle of toleri

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tolerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tolerō  "bear ye, endure ye, tolerate ye"

Participle

(deprecated template usage) tolerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of tolerātus