**IV.a. Palliative**

As a concept, in my experience, requires much explanation to those who encounter it for the first time, both as a patient or carer and as professionals. Explaining its meaning and aims to the general public can be very challenging indeed, although it must be said it has brought about really creative ways of explaining it in a practical way.

It is said that its use in English has seen a significant increase in the last 200 years due to the development of *Palliative Care.* Its Spanish translation is often used in politics such as in "we are going to remedy such a situation without palliatives", as a plural, indicaring with harshnesh.

**IV. Palliative** [43–46]

*Adj.*

Early 15c., french Palliatif, "serving to mitigate or alleviate" (a wound, illness, etc.); other meanings "cloak, cover, concealing;" from.

From Late Latin *Palliatus* "cloaked," from past participle of Late Latin palliare "cover with a cloak, conceal,"

*Noun.* Medieval Latin *palliativus* "under cloak, covert," from Latin *pallium* "a cloak" (see pall (n.)).

Dates from 1724.

Meaning"serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation". "that which mitigates or extenuates,"

## *Verb.*

1779c. from the verb palliare 'to cloak',´to protect´. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

late Middle English (as an adjective) from French palliatif, ive or medieval Latin palliativus, from the verb palliare 'to cloak'.
