DictionaryRoot: -ation
English

-ation

an action, process, or result

Forms

  • -ation

Origin

Borrowed through French from Latin -atio, the form of an action ending used with many -are verbs.

Note

English speakers later attached this ending to bases that were not themselves Latin verbs.

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noun

articulation

A joint or way in which parts fit together.

Etymology

The Latin root concerns joints and jointed parts. Articulation can therefore name either the joint itself or the way separate parts connect and fit together.

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