Detonation
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late 17th century: from French détonation, from the verb détoner, from Latin detonare ‘thunder down’ (see detonate).
wiktionary
From French détonation; equivalent to detonate + -ion.
etymonline
detonation (n.)
1670s, "explosion accompanied by loud sound," from French détonation, from Medieval Latin detonationem (nominative detonatio), from Latin detonare "to thunder down, to release one's thunder, roar out," from de "down" (see de-) + tonare "to thunder" (see thunder (n.)). Sense of "act of causing to explode" (mid-18c.) developed in French.
