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- Latin · derived fromcontūsiōnem
- Middle French · borrowed fromcontusion
- English todaycontusion
Borrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), by surface analysis, com- + tundō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.