## Meanings
1. A new device or process that someone has created for the first time.
2. The act of creating something new.
3. The ability to think of new and clever ideas.

## Examples
- The wheel was an invention that changed human history.
- The invention of the printing press spread knowledge across Europe.
- It took a lot of invention to solve the puzzle.

## Synonyms
- discovery

## Derived Forms
- coinvention
- innovention
- inventioneer
- inventionism
- inventionist
- preinvention
- reinvention
- uninvention

## Related Forms
- invent
- invented
- inventional
- inventive
- inventor
- reinvent

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: invencion
- Root: inventiō
- Root: inveniō

## Etymology
From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion. Displaced native Old English orþanc.

## AI Etymology
Invention comes from Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion. Displaced native Old English orþanc. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. The historical line also includes inveniō.

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