Reconciliate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To restore friendly relations between people who have been estranged or in dispute
2. To win back harmony between parties who had been at odds, making them agreeable again
3. To make opposing people or ideas consistent and peaceful with one another once more

Etymology: "Reconciliate" is simply a variant of "reconcile," and its history runs through a Latin verb built from a prefix and a root meaning "to call." The Latin "calare" meant "to call" or "to summon," and when it combined with "con-" (together) it produced "conciliare," "to bring together, to unite." Adding the prefix "re-" (back, again) gave "reconciliare," meaning to bring people back together after a breach, and English borrowed it directly from Latin as "reconcile," which is the form most dictionaries still record. The "-ate" spelling is the odd one out. It appears in English as an alternative form, shaped by the verbs that end in "-ate" borrowed from Latin participle stems, but it never displaced the original. Its meaning is the same as "reconcile": to make two parties friendly again, or to make two things compatible.

Synonyms: reconcile, conciliate, appease, pacify

Antonyms: alienate, estrange, divide