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- Latin · learned borrowing fromsēlēctiō“the act of choosing out, selection”
- English todayselection
Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiō (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“apart”) + legō (“gather, select”). Equivalent to select + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.