Etymology

cooperation

C3O1O1P3E1R1A1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The act of cooperating. Full definition →

French cooperation ← Late Latin cooperātiō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Late Latin · derived fromcooperātiō
  2. French · borrowed fromcooperation
  3. English todaycooperation

First attested in 1620–1630. Borrowed from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō. By surface analysis, co- + operation or cooperate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.