facilitate

From French faciliter, from Latin facilis

• IPA^(key): /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, /fəˈsɪləteɪt/

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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.
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).

• (to make easy or easier): ease

• facile
• facilitation
• facilitative
• facilitator
• facilitatory
• facility

facilitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of facilitare
2. second-person plural imperative of facilitare
3. feminine plural of facilitato

• felicitata

facilitāte

1. ablative singular of facilitās

From Latin facilitas through French facilité

• IPA^(key): [fatʃiliˈtate]

facilitate f (plural facilități)

1. facility