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dotation

Pronunciation: /doʊˈteɪʃən/

The English word “dotation” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
  2. A grant of revenues from territory conquered by the French Empire (c. 1804–1814).

Etymology

From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”). By surface analysis, dotate + -ion. In sense 3, borrowed from French dotation, ultimately from the same origin.

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