ocasión

/okaˈsjon/ · A2 · noun · f

juncture

ocasión = occasion: English -sion becomes Spanish -sión, one c dropped

From Latin occasio, a falling-toward: ob (toward) + cadere (to fall), an event that falls your way. Spanish keeps a single c and stresses the final syllable: o-ca-SIÓN. Feminine, like nearly all -sión nouns: la ocasión.

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