dotation

English

Etymology

From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dotare (“to endow”).

Noun

dotation (countable and uncountable, plural dotations)

1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

   As to eleemosynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal visitors […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dotation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From Latin dotatio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dotation f (plural dotations)

1. allowance
2. endowment

Related terms

• doter
• douer

Further reading

• “dotation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

dotation

1. Alternative form of dotacion