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facilitate

English

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Etymology

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Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through the suffix -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, /fəˈsɪləteɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Verb

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facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

  1. To make easy or easier.
    • 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
      Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
    • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
      The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
  2. To help bring about.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
  3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Synonyms

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  • (to make easy or easier): ease

Antonyms

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Senses 1 and 2:

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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facilitate

  1. inflection of facilitare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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facilitate f pl

  1. feminine plural of facilitato

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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facilitāte

  1. ablative singular of facilitās

Romanian

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Etymology

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From Latin facilitas through French facilité. Equivalent to facil +‎ -itate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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facilitate f (plural facilități)

  1. facility

Declension

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singular plural
+ indefinite article + definite article + indefinite article + definite article
nominative/accusative (o) facilitate facilitatea (niște) facilități facilitățile
genitive/dative (unei) facilități facilității (unor) facilități facilităților
vocative facilitate, facilitateo facilităților

Spanish

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Verb

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facilitate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of facilitar combined with te
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