devotion (the act or state of devoting or being devoted) · devotion (feelings of strong or fervent affection) · devotion (religious veneration, zeal or piety)
köken: Coined in the Meiji period from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 瞑 (mei, “closing one's eyes”) + 想 (sō, “to think, to contemplate”). First attested in the 1881 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Dictionary”) compiled by 井上哲次郎 (Inoue Tetsujirō).
köken: Etymology tree Latin meditor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin meditātiōlbor. Polish medytacja Learned borrowing from Latin meditātiō.
köken: From Dutch meditatie, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
köken: From Old Irish crábud (“piety, devotion, religion”), from Proto-Celtic *krāb- (“devotion, religious practice”), of unknown origin (compare Welsh crefydd with the suffix -ydd).