irrigation

Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

irrigation (countable and uncountable, plural irrigations)

1. The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”

Learned borrowing from Latin irrigātiō. By surface analysis, irriguer +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

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• Hyphenation: i‧rri‧ga‧tion

irrigation f (plural irrigations)

1. irrigation

• “irrigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.