-sion

a noun suffix appearing in loanwords from Latin: compulsion.

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Nearby words

-sexual, -shaped, -sharing, -ship, -sided, -sion, -sis, -sk, -sol, -soma, -some

Compare -tion.

Origin of -sion

< Latin, equivalent to -s(us), variant of -tus past participle suffix + -iōn- -ion

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