facilitato

Facilitato is the Italian past participle of facilitare, meaning “facilitated.” It is commonly used as an adjective to describe something that has been made easier or enabled by a cause or mechanism. It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies; for example, un processo facilitato (a facilitated process) or procedure facilitata (a facilitated procedure). It is not a term for a person; the corresponding noun for a person who facilitates is facilitatore (masculine) or facilitatrice (feminine).

In Italian, facilitated meaning often appears in technical, administrative, or academic contexts, and in phrases such as accesso facilitato (facilitated access) or comunicazione facilitata (facilitated communication). The word can also occur in scientific usage, for instance in biology with the term diffusione facilitata, or facilitated diffusion, where a substance moves through a membrane with the help of a carrier protein.

As a participle used adjectivally, facilitato conveys a state resulting from facilitation rather than an ongoing action. Related forms include facilitazione (facilitation) and facilitante (facilitating). The term is part of a family of words built from facilitare and is commonly encountered in formal texts and specialized discourse.

See also: facilitazione, facilitante, facilitare, diffusione facilitata.