## Meanings
1. A person who passes information and helps two groups work together.
2. Communication and cooperation between two groups.
3. A secret sexual relationship or affair.

## Examples
- She acts as the liaison between the school and local families.
- Close liaison between the two departments helped the launch go smoothly.
- The novel hints at a secret liaison between the two characters.

## Related Forms
- liaise
- ligation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *leyǵ-
- Root: ligātiō

## Etymology
Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

## AI Etymology
Liaison is borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”). In present-day use, it can mean a person who passes information and helps two groups work together, or communication and cooperation between two groups. Related forms include liaise, ligation.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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