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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Adozione

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-do-tsyo-ne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Enactment/ɪˈnækt.mənt/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'adozione della nuova legge ha portato a cambiamenti significativi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of making a law or regulation official.

    "The enactment of the new law was celebrated by the community."
  2. 2

    A law or regulation that has been formally enacted.

    "The enactment of the policy led to significant changes in the education system."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'enact', combining the prefix 'en-' (in, into) with the Middle English 'nacten' or Anglo-French 'enacter', ultimately stemming from Latin 'actus' (act, performance). Over time, it evolved from the general sense of decreeing or ordaining a law to the formal process of passing legislation and performing roles in a drama.

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