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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noun

conversion

Unlawful control over another person's personal property.

Etymology

Latin vertere supplies the image of turning. Legal conversion turns another person’s property to one’s own use or control, giving the ordinary change-of-use idea a wrongful application.

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