reconcile
/ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
verb
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to reconcile people who have quarrelled"
- "to wait until others have reconciled"
- "to reconcile differences"
- "The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state."
- "Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace"
- "Since all men are by nature egoists and morality can only be rationalized egoism, the problem is to devise a form of social organization that will reconcile the selfish interests of each with the needs of all."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- Proto-Italic *kalō Latin calō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin concilium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin conciliō Latin reconciliōbor. English reconcile Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/
- British English: /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/