Etymology

adhesion

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Today it means: The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance. Full definition →

French adhésion ← Latin adhaesiōnem ← Proto-Italic *ad-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Latinhaereō
  6. Latinadhaereō
  7. Latinadhaesiōnem
  8. Frenchadhésion
  9. English todayadhesion

From French adhésion, from Latin stem of adhaesio, from past participle of adhaerare.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.