# mitigar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mītigāre. First attested in 1391.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [mi.tiˈɣa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [mi.tiˈɣaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitiguí, past participle mitigat)
* (transitive) to mitigate

#### Related terms

* mitigació

### References

* ↑ “mitigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “mitigar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mitigar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mitigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Interlingua
### Verb

mitigar
* to mitigate

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | mitigar | mitigar |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | mitigante | mitigate |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | mitiga | ha mitigate |
| active | past | mitigava | habeva mitigate |
| active | future | mitigara | habera mitigate |
| active | conditional | mitigarea | haberea mitigate |
| active | imperative | mitiga | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es mitigate | ha essite mitigate |
| passive | past | esseva mitigate | habeva essite mitigate |
| passive | future | essera mitigate | habera essite mitigate |
| passive | conditional | esserea mitigate | haberea essite mitigate |
| passive | imperative | sia mitigate | |

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mītigāre (“to make ripe”), from mītis (“ripe, mature”) + agō (“do, make”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(ʁ)/ [mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(ʁ)/ [mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(ʁ)/ [mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /mi.t͡ʃiˈɡa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mi.tiˈɡaɾ/ [mi.tiˈɣaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mi.tiˈɡaɾ/ [mi.tiˈɣaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mi.tiˈɡa.ɾi/ [mi.tiˈɣa.ɾi]

### Verb

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitiguei, past participle mitigado)
* to mitigate

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:mitigar

#### Antonyms

* See Thesaurus:mitigar

#### Related terms

* mitigação
* mitigadamente
* mitigado
* mitigador
* mitigante
* mitigativo
* mitigável

### Further reading

* “mitigar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin mītigāre (“to make ripe”), from mītis (“ripe, mature”) + agō (“do, make”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mitiˈɡaɾ/ [mi.t̪iˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: mi‧ti‧gar

### Verb

mitigar (first-person singular present mitigo, first-person singular preterite mitigué, past participle mitigado)
* to mitigate, alleviate, allay, assuage, quench
* to soothe

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* mitigación

### Further reading

* “mitigar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10