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DictionaryRoot: -ion
English

-ion

an action, process, or result

Forms

  • -ion

Origin

Borrowed through French from Latin -io, whose longer form was -ion-.

Note

The ending names activities and results, rather than contributing a concrete object meaning.

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A conservator returns a matching broken fragment to the gap in an otherwise reassembled ceramic bowl, visibly restoring the fragment to its original whole.
noun

reintegration

ree-in-tuh-GRAY-shun/riˈɪntʌɡrˌeɪʃʌn/

The process of becoming part of a group, society, or system again.

Etymology
reEnglishagain or back
+integratEnglishmake whole
+ionEnglishan action, process, or result

Re- points back to a former condition, while integrate supplies the idea of making whole. The noun names a restorative process: bringing someone or something back into a whole.

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