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Word Origins Dictionary
- correlation (n.)




- 1560s, from Middle French corrélation, from cor- "together" (see com-) + relation (see relation).
- interrelation (n.)




- 1841, from inter- + relation.
- interrelationship (n.)




- also inter-relationship, 1841, from inter- + relationship.
- relation (n.)




- late 14c., "connection, correspondence;" also "act of telling," from Anglo-French relacioun, Old French relacion "report, connection" (14c.), from Latin relationem (nominative relatio) "a bringing back, restoring; a report, proposition," from relatus (see relate). Meaning "person related by blood or marriage" first attested c. 1500. Stand-alone phrase no relation "not in the same family" is attested by 1930.
- relational (adj.)




- 1660s, from relation + -al (1).
- relationship (n.)




- 1640s, "sense or state of being related," from relation + -ship. Specifically of romantic or sexual relationships by 1944.