The story
- Latin · derived fromdēnotāre“to denote, mark out”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromdēnotātiō
- English todaydenotation
From Late Latin dēnotātiō, from Latin dēnotāre (“to denote, mark out”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from dē- (“completely”) + notāre (“to mark”); equivalent to denote + -ation.
Words from the same roots
Latindēnotāre all →
denote
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.