different between relax vs pardon

English

Etymology

From Middle English relaxen, from Old French relaxer, from Latin relax?re (“relax, loosen, open”), from re- (“back”) + lax?re (“loosen”), from laxus (“loose, free”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???læks/
• Rhymes: -æks

Verb

relax (third-person singular simple present relaxes, present participle relaxing, simple past and past participle relaxed)

1. (transitive) To calm down.
2. (transitive) To make something loose.
3. (intransitive) To become loose.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I relax in the living room.

4. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.

5. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
6. (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction

     The statute of mortmain […] was at several times relaxed by the legislature.
7. (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
8. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.

9. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

Antonyms

• stress, excite

Derived terms

• relaxable
• overrelax, underrelax

Related terms

• relaxation

Translations

Anagrams

• laxer, raxle

Italian

Noun

relax m (invariable)

1. relaxation (mental or physical)

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, shortening of English relaxation or erroneous borrowing of English relax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rela?s/, [?re.la??s]

Noun

relax m (uncountable)

1. relaxation

Derived terms

• estar de relax

English

Etymology

From Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner (modern French pardonner), from Vulgar Latin *perdonare, from per- + donare, a loan-translation of a Germanic word represented by Frankish *firgeban (“to forgive, give up completely”), from *fir- + *geban. Akin to Old High German fargeban, firgeban (“to forgive”), Old English for?iefan (“to forgive”). More at forgive.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.d?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??.dn?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n

Noun

pardon (countable and uncountable, plural pardons)

1. Forgiveness for an offence.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

     […] a step, that could not be taken with the least hope of ever obtaining pardon from or reconciliation with any of my friends; […]

2. (law) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
   • 1974: President Gerald Ford, Proclamation 4311

     I […] have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States […]

Derived terms

• I beg your pardon

Translations

Verb

pardon (third-person singular simple present pardons, present participle pardoning, simple past and past participle pardoned)

1. (transitive) To forgive (a person).
   • 1599: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

     O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

   • 1815: Jane Austen, Emma

     I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.
2. (transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
3. (transitive, law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Derived terms

• pardonable
• pardoner
• pardon me
• pardon my French
• unpardonable

Translations

Interjection

pardon?

1. Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:say again

Translations

Anagrams

• Padron

Czech

Alternative forms

• pardón

Interjection

pardon

1. sorry, I'm sorry, I beg your pardon, I apologize

Synonyms

• omlouvám se, promi?te, promi?, sorry, sorá?

Further reading

• pardon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pardon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?r?d?n/
• Hyphenation: par?don
• Rhymes: -?n

Interjection

pardon

1. I'm sorry, pardon

Noun

pardon n (plural pardons)

1. (law) pardon, clemency

French

Etymology

Deverbal of pardonner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.d??/

Interjection

pardon

1. excuse me
2. sorry

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ??????? (pardón, “colloquial”)
• ? Czech: pardon (“colloquial”)
• ? English: pardon
• ? Russian: ??????? (pardón, “colloquial”)

Noun

pardon m (plural pardons)

1. pardon, forgiveness

Derived terms

• Grand Pardon

Further reading

• “pardon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pondra

Hungarian

Etymology

From French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par?don/
• Rhymes: -on

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

Further reading

• pardon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

From French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par?don/

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

Noun

pardon n (uncountable)

1. (dated) pardon, pardoning, forgiveness, excuse

Synonyms

• iertare, scuz?

See also

• poftim

Swedish

Noun

pardon c

1. mercy

Synonyms

• nåd

Anagrams

• pandor

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pardon.

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!