mediation

See also: Mediation and médiation

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mediātiō (perhaps via Middle French mediation/mediacion) from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /midiˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mediation (countable and uncountable, plural mediations)

1. Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
2. The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
3. (Gallicism) heritage interpretation

Derived terms

• cybermediation
• hypermediation
• mediational
• transmediation

Related terms

• mediate
• mediator
• mid

Translations

negotiation to resolve differences conducted by some impartial party

• Azerbaijani: münsiflik, vasitəçilik
• Bulgarian: посре́дничество (bg) n (posrédničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調解／调解 (zh) (tiáojiě)

• Finnish: välitys (fi), sovittelu (fi)
• German: Vermittlung (de) f
• Romanian: mediere (ro) f
• Russian: посре́дничество (ru) n (posrédničestvo), медиа́ция (ru) f (mediácija)
• Swedish: medling (sv)
• Turkish: arabuluculuk (tr)

the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement

• Bulgarian: посре́дничество (bg) n (posrédničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調解／调解 (zh) (tiáojiě)

• Finnish: välitys (fi), sovittelu (fi)
• Romanian: mediere (ro) f
• Russian: посре́дничество (ru) n (posrédničestvo), медиа́ция (ru) f (mediácija)
• Spanish: mediación (es) f
• Ukrainian: медіація f (mediacija), посередництво n (poserednyctvo)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: bemiddeling (nl) f
• Galician: mediación (gl) f
• Greek: μεσολάβηση (el) f (mesolávisi), παρέμβαση (el) f (parémvasi)
• Italian: mediazione (it) f
• Portuguese: mediação (pt) f
• Spanish: mediación (es) f

See also

• arbitration

Further reading

• "mediation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 204.

Danish

Noun

mediation c (singular definite mediationen, plural indefinite mediationer)

1. mediation

Declension

Declension of mediation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mediation	mediationen	mediationer	mediationerne
genitive	mediations	mediationens	mediationers	mediationernes

Further reading

• “mediation” in Den Danske Ordbog