volition

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*welh₁-
2. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-influ.
3. Proto-Italic*welō
4. Latinvolō
5. Medieval Latinvolitiō
6. Frenchvolition
7. English todayvolition

From French volition, from Medieval Latin volitiō (“will, volition”), from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs)).

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from early 17th c. A conscious choice or decision.