dotation

Meanings

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.