-tionsuffix

Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. adduction n.²

Forms: Middle English -cioun, Middle English -cioune, Middle English -ciun, Middle English -cyone, Middle English -cyoun, Middle English -cyun, Middle English -tiun, Middle English–1500s -cione, Middle English–1500s -cyon, Middle English–1600s -cion, Middle English– -tion, 1500s–1600s -tyon.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French -cion, -tion; Latin -tiōn-, -tiō.

Etymology: < Old French -cion, French -tion, and their etymon classical Latin -tiōn-, -tiō < -t- (in a past participial stem) + -iōn- , -iō -ion suffix¹, in e.g. relation n., completion n., fruition n., munition n., protection n., detention n., option n.; compare -ation suffix.The etymological meaning was primarily ‘the state or condition of being (what the past participle imports)’, e.g. the condition of being related , completed , protected , detained , suspended , inflected , etc. But already in Latin -tiō was used for the action or process of relating , completing , suspending , etc., and also concretely or quasi-concretely, as in dictiō , the condition of being said, the saying of something, a saying, a word; so nātiō birth, a brood, a nation; ōrātiō mode of speaking, an oration. Rarer forms are -sion , -xion , in e.g. suspension n., inflexion , variant of inflection n.

In English the most usual sense is that of a noun of action, equivalent to the native ending -ing suffix¹, and having also the kindred uses mentioned under the suffix.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-tion
释义	-tionsuffix Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. adduction n.² Forms: Middle English -cioun, Middle English -cioune, Middle English -ciun, Middle English -cyone, Middle English -cyoun, Middle English -cyun, Middle English -tiun, Middle English–1500s -cione, Middle English–1500s -cyon, Middle English–1600s -cion, Middle English– -tion, 1500s–1600s -tyon. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French -cion, -tion; Latin -tiōn-, -tiō. Etymology: < Old French -cion, French -tion, and their etymon classical Latin -tiōn-, -tiō < -t- (in a past participial stem) + -iōn- , -iō -ion suffix¹, in e.g. relation n., completion n., fruition n., munition n., protection n., detention n., option n.; compare -ation suffix.The etymological meaning was primarily ‘the state or condition of being (what the past participle imports)’, e.g. the condition of being related , completed , protected , detained , suspended , inflected , etc. But already in Latin -tiō was used for the action or process of relating , completing , suspending , etc., and also concretely or quasi-concretely, as in dictiō , the condition of being said, the saying of something, a saying, a word; so nātiō birth, a brood, a nation; ōrātiō mode of speaking, an oration. Rarer forms are -sion , -xion , in e.g. suspension n., inflexion , variant of inflection n. In English the most usual sense is that of a noun of action, equivalent to the native ending -ing suffix¹, and having also the kindred uses mentioned under the suffix. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < suffix
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