assumption – English noun declension

English noun forms of assumption

Noun: assumption
Singularassumption
Pluralassumptions

Sample Sentences

  • His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.
  • Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.
  • No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions. [1976, “The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 10”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle. [1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *upó
7. Proto-Italic *supo
8. Latin sub
9. Latin sub-
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
12. Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti
13. Proto-Italic *emō
14. Latin emō
15. Latin sūmō
16. Latin assūmō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
18. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
20. Proto-Italic *-tiō
21. Latin -tiō
22. Latin assūmptiōder.
23. Middle English assumpciounder.
24. English assumption
25. From Middle English assumpcioun, from Medieval Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up (into heaven)”) and Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up, adoption, the minor proposition of a syllogism”) (whence -ion), from Latin assūmō (whence as- (“assimilated form of ad-”). See also assume. Doublet of assumptio. See: Latin Nouns 'assūmptiō', Latin Nouns 'assūmō'.

Verbs referencing "assumption"

Spanish Nouns asunto, Romanian Nouns asumpție.