meditation

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*med-“to measure, limit, consider, advise”
2. Latin · derived frommeditatio
3. Old French · derived frommeditacion
4. English todaymeditation

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

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