suffix
Meaning 1
An action or process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, morpheme, uncountable
Examples
- sediment + -ation → sedimentation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
-ation
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ā′shən
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ̯.ʃən/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɛjʃən/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈæɪ̯.ʃən/
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Scotland: /ˈe.ʃən/
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India: /ˈeː.ʃon/
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
suffix
Meaning 2
The result of an action or process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, morpheme, uncountable
Examples
- found + -ation → foundation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
suffix
Meaning 3
A state or quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, morpheme, uncountable
Examples
- color + -ation → coloration
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation Inherited from Middle English -acioun, borrowed from Old French -ation, a learned borrowing from Latin -ātiō, from -tiō, from Proto-Italic *-tiō, from Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō, from *-tis + *-Hō. By surface analysis, -ate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: -asie — -ation (suffix)
- Afrikaans: -sie — -ation (suffix)
- Afrikaans: -ering — -ation (suffix)
- Albanian: -im — -ation (suffix)
- Arabic: ـِيَّة (-iyya) — -ation (suffix)
- Armenian: -ում (-um) — -ation (suffix)
- Asturian: -ación — -ation (suffix)
- Asturian: -ción — -ation (suffix)
- Azerbaijani: -asiya — -ation (suffix)
- Belarusian: -а́цыя (-ácyja) — -ation (suffix)
- Bulgarian: -а́ция (-ácija) — -ation (suffix)
- Bulgarian: -не (-ne) — -ation (suffix)
- Bulgarian: -ние (-nie) — -ation (suffix)
- Catalan: -ació — -ation (suffix)
- Catalan: -ció — -ation (suffix)
- Chinese Cantonese: -化 (faa3) — -ation (suffix)
- Hakka Chinese: -化 (fa) — -ation (suffix)
- Chinese: -化 (hoà) — -ation (suffix)
- Chinese Mandarin: -化 (-huà) — -ation (suffix)
- Czech: -ace — -ation (suffix)
- Danish: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- Danish: -tion — -ation (suffix)
- Danish: -ering — -ation (suffix)
- Dutch: -atie — -ation (suffix)
- Dutch: -tie — -ation (suffix)
- Dutch: -ering — -ation (suffix)
- Estonian: -atsioon — -ation (suffix)
- Finnish: -aatio — -ation (suffix)
- French: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- Middle French: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- Old French: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- Old French: -acion — -ation (suffix)
- Galician: -ación — -ation (suffix)
- Galician: -ción — -ation (suffix)
- German: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- German: -tion — -ation (suffix)
- German: -ierung — -ation (suffix)
- Hungarian: -áció — -ation (suffix)
- Indonesian: -sasi — -ation (suffix)
- Indonesian: -asi — -ation (suffix)
- Indonesian: -si — -ation (suffix)
- Italian: -zione — -ation (suffix)
- Japanese: -化 (-ka) — -ation (suffix)
- Korean: -화 (-hwa) — -ation (suffix)
- Latvian: -ācija — -ation (suffix)
- Latvian: -cija — -ation (suffix)
- Lithuanian: -acija — -ation (suffix)
- Lithuanian: -cija — -ation (suffix)
- Macedonian: -а́ција (-ácija) — -ation (suffix)
- Malay: -asi — -ation (suffix)
- Norman: -âtion — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Bokmål: -asjon — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Bokmål: -sjon — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Bokmål: -ering — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: -asjon — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: -sjon — -ation (suffix)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: -ering — -ation (suffix)
- Occitan: -acion — -ation (suffix)
- Occitan: -cion — -ation (suffix)
- Persian: ی — -ation (suffix)
- Polish: -acja — -ation (suffix)
- Portuguese: -ção — -ation (suffix)
- Romanian: -are — -ation (suffix)
- Romanian: -ire — -ation (suffix)
- Russian: -ение (-enije) — -ation (suffix)
- Russian: -а́ция (-ácija) — -ation (suffix)
- Serbo-Croatian: -ација — -ation (suffix)
- Serbo-Croatian: -acija — -ation (suffix)
- Slovak: -ácia — -ation (suffix)
- Slovene: -acija — -ation (suffix)
- Spanish: -ación — -ation (suffix)
- Spanish: -ción — -ation (suffix)
- Swedish: -ation — -ation (suffix)
- Swedish: -tion — -ation (suffix)
- Swedish: -ring — -ation (suffix)
- Ukrainian: -а́ція (-ácija) — -ation (suffix)
- Vietnamese: ... hoá — -ation (suffix)