-ation
An action or process.
Suffix
- An action or process.
- sediment + -ation → sedimentation
- The result of an action or process.
- found + -ation → foundation
- A state or quality.
- color + -ation → coloration
Origin
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.