connection
Meanings
- The act of connecting.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- Sexual intercourse.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- A physical link between two things or places.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A relationship or association.
- A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.
- A relationship between people or groups of people.
- A feeling of mutual understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- A contextual relationship; the commonality between two or more things.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin nectō Latin cōnectō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnexiōder. Latin connexionemder. Middle English connexiounder. English connection From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“to bind”). In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect + -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.