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DictionaryRoot: -io
Latin

-io

an action, process, or result

Forms

  • -io
  • -ion- — The longer form used before Latin endings.
  • -ion — The form carried into many English nouns.

Origin

An old Latin noun ending, inherited from earlier Indo-European word formation.

Note

The ending can name both an activity and what that activity produces.

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proper noun

Assumption

The Christian feast celebrating Mary's being taken into heaven.

Etymology
asLatinto, toward; addition; sometimes emphasis
+sumptLatintake or take up
+ionLatinan action, process, or result

Latin ad- and sumere express taking to oneself. The feast’s name refers to Mary being taken into heaven, applying the word’s taking-up sense to that Christian belief.

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