The story
- Latin · derived fromnegātiō“a denial; negative word”
- Old French · derived fromnegacion
- Middle English · inherited fromnegacioun
- English todaynegation
From Middle English negacioun, from Old French negacion, from Latin negātiō (“a denial; negative word”). Morphologically negate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.