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Solution

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means the answer to a problem, or a liquid mixture in which something is dissolved
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Stage 1 of 2
solutio
Latin · ancient
"a loosening, an untying"
a loosening, an untying, from solvere (to loosen)
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Stage 2 of 2
solution
English · 1300s
"the answer to a problem, or a dissolved mixture"
settled as the English word for the answer to a problem
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