[1520–30; ‹ L pollicitātiōn- (s. of pollicitātiō) a promising, equiv. to pollicitāt(us) (ptp. of pollicitārī to promise, freq. of pollicērī to promise, lit., bid for, equiv. to pol- (assimilated var. of por- forth, forward, akin to per-) + licērī to bid) + -iōn- -ion]This word is first recorded in the period 1520–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: accent, ballast, bias, ribbon, suspension-ion is a suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, usedin Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and esp. past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion)