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- Latin · borrowed fromcoarctātiō“drawing or crowding together”
- English todaycoarctation
Borrowed from Latin coarctātiō (“drawing or crowding together”, noun), from coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, action noun suffix); equivalent to coarctate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.