From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx + faciō.

• (America) IPA: /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/, /ˈpæsəfaɪ/

pacify (pacifies, present participle pacifying; simple past and past participle pacified)

1. (transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
2. (transitive) To appease (someone).
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC ↗:

     Watt decided in the end that an examination of Erskine's room was essential, if his mind was to be pacified, in this connexion.

• allay, locarnize, peacify, repacify

• French: pacifier
• German: befrieden
• Italian: pacificare
• Portuguese: pacificar
• Spanish: pacificar, apaciguar

• German: friedlich stimmen