Etymology

stagnation

stag·nat·ion
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Today it means: The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this. Full definition →

Latin stagnāre ← Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*steh₂g-“to drip; to seep”
  2. Latin · derived fromstagnāre
  3. English todaystagnation

From stagnate + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result), Stagnate is derived from stagnāt-, the participial stem of Latin stagnāre, the present active infinitive of stāgnō (“of waters: to cover the land as a lake, to become a pool, to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“body of standing water (lake, swamp, etc.)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*steh₂g- all →

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