different between conciliatory vs conciliate

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?l.i.??t??.i/

Adjective

conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

1. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

Antonyms

• unconciliatory

Derived terms

• conciliatoriness

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concili?tus, perfect passive participle of concili? (“I unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n?s?lie?t/

Verb

conciliate (third-person singular simple present conciliates, present participle conciliating, simple past and past participle conciliated)

1. (transitive) To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate.
2. (intransitive) To mediate in a dispute.

Derived terms

• conciliatory

Related terms

• conciliation
• council
• reconcile, reconciliate

Translations

Italian

Verb

conciliate

1. second-person plural present indicative of conciliare
2. second-person plural imperative of conciliare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of conciliare
4. feminine plural of conciliato

Latin

Verb

concili?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concili?