relación

/relaˈθjon/ · A2 · noun · f

relation

relación = relation: English -tion becomes Spanish -ción

From Latin relatio, a carrying back, the same root as English relate. Nearly every English -tion word maps to a feminine Spanish -ción word: nation/nación, action/acción. The stress falls on the final syllable: re-la-CIÓN.

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