The story
- French · borrowed fromdotation
- Latin · derived fromdōtāre“to endow”
- Late Latin · derived fromdotatio
- Middle English · inherited fromdotacion
- English todaydotation
From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”). By surface analysis, dotate + -ion. In sense 3, borrowed from French dotation, ultimately from the same origin.
Words from the same roots
Latindōtāre all →
endowdote
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.