Where does “suggestion” come from?
suggestion (Old French) comes from Latin suggestiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus, from Latin calx — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
suggestion (Old French): suggestion; proposal
Definitions
- suggestion; proposal
Ancestry of “suggestion”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | suggestiō | addition |
| 2 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 3 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 4 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 5 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 7 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 8 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “suggestion”
- suggestion
- suggestible
- autosuggestion
- countersuggestion
- heterosuggestion
- suggestopedia
- unsuggestible
- suggestional
- autosuggestible
- nonsuggestible
- suggestibly
- contrasuggestible
- suggestion
- suggestioun
- autosuggestion
- suggestie
- sugestia
- sugestie
- missuggestion
- auto-suggestion
- narcosuggestion
- self-suggestion
- suggestibilité
- autosugestia