supposition

English

Etymology

From Middle English supposicioun, from Anglo-Norman supposicion, from Latin suppositiō, suppositiōnem (“supposition”), from sub- (“under”) + positiō, positiōnem (“position; theme”), from positus (“position”), from the perfect passive participle of pōnō, pōnere (“put, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

supposition (countable and uncountable, plural suppositions)

1. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
2. The act or an instance of supposing.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:supposition

Related terms

• suppositious

Translations

assumption

• Arabic: اِفْتِرَاض‎ m (iftirāḍ), فَرْضِيَّة‎ (ar) f (farḍiyya)
• Azerbaijani: fərziyyə, təxmin (az), güman (az), zənn (az), ehtimal (az), fərz (az), təxmin (az)
• Belarusian: прыпушчэ́нне n (prypuščénnje)
• Bulgarian: предположе́ние (bg) n (predpoložénie)
• Catalan: suposició f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假定 (zh) (jiǎdìng)

• Czech: předpoklad (cs) m
• Dutch: veronderstelling (nl)
• Esperanto: supozo
• Finnish: oletus (fi)
• French: hypothèse (fr) f, supposition (fr) f, conjecture (fr) f
• German: Annahme (de) f, Supposition f (jargon)
• Greek: υπόθεση (el) f (ypóthesi)

  Ancient: ὑπόληψις f (hupólēpsis)

• Hungarian: feltevés (hu)
• Irish: glacan f, dóigh f
• Italian: supposizione (it) f, presupposto (it)
• Japanese: 想像 (ja) (そうぞう, sōzō), 推測 (ja) (すいそく, suisoku)
• Korean: 상상 (ko) (sangsang), 추측 (ko) (chucheuk)
• Maori: pūmāramarama
• Polish: założenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: suposição (pt) f
• Romanian: supoziție (ro) f, presupunere (ro) f
• Russian: предположе́ние (ru) n (predpoložénije)
• Slovak: predpoklad m
• Spanish: suposición (es) f
• Swedish: supposition (sv) c
• Ukrainian: припу́щення n (prypúščennja)

the act or an instance of supposing

• German: Annehmen n
• Irish: forshuíomh m, toimhde f
• Romanian: presupunere (ro) f

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French

Etymology

From supposer +‎ -ition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.po.zi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

supposition f (plural suppositions)

1. supposition

Related terms

• présupposition

Further reading

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