legislation
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
-lation
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
legislation
the action of legislating (making or enacting laws)
立法, 法律
Dissection of legislation
legislation = leg (law) + is (is together with leg makes legis which is the genitive of lex which is a Latin word meaning law) + -lation (carry; bear, bring, extended further to mean action of bearing or producing);
legislation = an action of producing laws or making laws
Now Repeat my Dissection
legislation = an action of producing laws or making laws
Important roots for this word:
leg
-lation
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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