Modification
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late 15th century (in Scots law, denoting the assessment of a payment): from French, or from Latin modificatio(n- ), from modificare (see modify).
wiktionary
Borrowed from French modification, from Latin modificatio(“a measuring”), from modificare(“to limit, control, modify”); see modify.
etymonline
modification (n.)
c. 1500, in philosophy, "determination by a mode or quality," from French modification (14c.) and directly from Latin modificationem (nominative modificatio) "a measuring," noun of action from past-participle stem of modificare (see modify). Sense of "a result of a variation or alteration" is from 1660s. Meaning "act or process of altering in character, form, or function" is from 1774.
