condition

condition
\ \ [14] Latin condīcere originally meant literally ‘talk together’ – it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and diceretalk’ (whose base dic- forms the basis of a wide range of English words from abdicate to vindicate, including diction and dictionary).
\ \ Gradually the idea of ‘talking together, discussing’ passed to ‘agreeing’, and the derived Latin noun conditiō originally meant ‘agreement’. From this came ‘stipulation, provision’, and hence ‘situation, mode of being’, all of them senses which passed via Old French condicion into English condition.
\ \ Cf.ABDICATE, DICTION, DICTIONARY, PREDICT, VINDICATE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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