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- Latin · derived fromsuspēnsus
- Old French · derived fromsuspens
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromsuspens
- Middle English · inherited fromsuspense
- English todaysuspense
From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.