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- Latin · derived fromaureatus“decorated with gold”
- English todayaureation
From aureate + -ion, from Latin aureatus (“decorated with gold”).
Words from the same roots
Latinaureatus all →
aureate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
aureation
Today it means: The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it. Full definition →
Latin aureatus