Other forms: suggestions
A suggestion is an idea put forward for others to consider. Make a suggestion, a helpful suggestion, at his suggestion.
The word carries no force — a suggestion can be ignored where an instruction cannot, and calling an order a suggestion is a common way of being polite about it. A suggestion of something also means a faint trace of it. Note that the Latin means to bring up from below.
1nounsuggestionAn idea put forward for others to consider.
“Can I make a suggestion? Let's eat first and discuss it afterwards.”
2nounfaintA faint trace of something.
“There was just a suggestion of garlic in the sauce, barely enough to notice.”
suggestion is a proposed idea.
Also accepted in games: proposal
Latin suggestio comes from suggerere, to bring up from below — sub, under, plus gerere, to carry.
Latin
suggestiō
Anglo-Norman
suggestioun
Middle English
suggestion
English, today
suggestion
Built from
From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + ion. Related to English up-, cast.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA