The story
- Latin · derived fromviolātiō“injury, profanation”
- Middle French · borrowed fromviolation
- English todayviolation
Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“to treat with violence; to maltreat; to violate, defile, profane”). Morphologically violate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.