palliate 的詞源

15世紀早期，“緩解（疾病或其症狀）而不治癒”，源自中世紀拉丁語 palliatus，字面意思是“披着斗篷的”，來自晚期拉丁語 palliare “用斗篷覆蓋，隱藏”，源自拉丁語 pallium “斗篷”（參見 pall（n.））。意思是“通過辯解或引用減輕情況或有利的陳述來辯解或減輕（罪行）”來自1630年代。相關： Palliated； palliating； palliation。

Palliate and extenuate come at essentially the same idea through different figures : palliate is to cover in part as with a cloak; extenuate is to thin away or draw out to fineness. They both refer to the effort to make an offense seem less by bringing forward considerations tending to excuse; they never mean the effort to exonerate or exculpate completely. [Century Dictionary]

Palliate 和 extenuate 通過不同的比喻基本上表達了相同的意思： palliate 是部分地覆蓋，就像披着斗篷一樣； extenuate 是稀釋或拉出細節。它們都指努力通過提出傾向於辯解的考慮來使罪行看起來不那麼嚴重； 它們從來不意味着完全開脫或辯解。[世紀詞典]