Etymology

univerbation

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Today it means: The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words. Full definition →

French univerbation ← Latin verbum
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The story

  1. French · derived from-ation“-ation”
  2. Latin · derived fromverbum“word”
  3. French · borrowed fromuniverbation
  4. English todayuniverbation

Probably from French univerbation, from uni- (“uni-”) + Latin verbum (“word”) + French -ation (“-ation”).

Words from the same roots

Latinverbum all →

verbverbariumverbile

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