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- Latin · borrowed fromērectiō, ērectiōnis
- English todayerection
Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.