From en.wiktionary.org:
[médiate]
** English
*** Etymology
The [adjective] is [1440's] in [Middle English], the [verb] in 1538; from
[en], borrowed from [en], [perfect] [passive] [participle] of [la] (see [en]
and [en]), from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To resolve difference s, or to bring about a settlement , between conflicting parties .
2. [en] To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
3. * [volume=III]
4. To divide into two equal parts.
5. * [chapter=Of Measure in General. § More Particularly of Time; and Difficulties Concerning It.]
6. To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey .
7. * [volume=II]
8. * [en]
9. To act as a spiritualistic medium .
10. To communicate via media ; to frame ; to provide a cultural narrative about.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|electromediated|hypermediated|nonmediated|telemediated|unmediated|antibody-mediated
rejection|immunomediate|mediatable|mediative|mediatingly|nonmediating }}
**** Related terms
{{col|en |intermediate |mean |median |mediation |mediator |medium }}
**** Translations
[resolve differences]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[intervene between conflicting parties]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[act as communicative agent]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[?]
1. Acting through a mediating agency, indirect .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=Sir William Hamilton | title=The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton | page=318
|passage=The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of
representative cognition: — 1° _the act of representing_ a ( MEDIATE) object
to the mind; 2° _the representation_, or, to speak more properly,
_representamen_, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the
mind; 3° _the act by which the mind is conscious_, immediately of the
representative object, and, through it, mediately _of the remote object_
represented.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1989 | author=w:Oliver Sacks | title=Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
|passage=Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither
learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social
and MEDIATE in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and
as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of
thought.}}
1. Intermediate between extreme s.
2. * [Charity]
3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
4. * {{ RQ:Bacon Learning
|passage= MEDIATE positive proof}}
1. * [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[Acting through a mediating agency]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[intermediate]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Italian
*** Adjective
[it]
1. [it]
*** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Anagrams
- [it]
** Latin
*** Participle
[la]
1. [la]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [mediar]