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- New Latin · borrowed fromvaledictiō
- English todayvalediction
First attested in 1614; borrowed from New Latin valedictiō, from valedīcō (“to bid farewell”) + -tiō, from valē (“farewell, so long”) + dīcō (“to say”). By surface analysis, valedict + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.