English Explanatory Dictionary

mundation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of cleaning.

Word forms

mundation mundations

Etymology

From Latin mundātio (“cleaning”), from mundō (“to make clean”), from mundus (“clean, neat, elegant”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“to wash, wet”). Cognate with Dutch mooi (“nice, beautiful, sheen”).

Related words

mundatory
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