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- Latin · borrowed fromrefūtātiō
- Middle French · borrowed fromrefutation
- English todayrefutation
Borrowed from Middle French refutation (compare French réfutation, Spanish refutación, Portuguese refutação, Italian refutazione) or its etymon Latin refūtātiō, from refūtō + -ātiō. By surface analysis, refute + -ation. First attested in 1536 (in sense 1).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.