spontaneous
spon-TAY-nee-us · adjective
Origin
English borrowed 'spontaneous' as a learned term from Late Latin spontāneus, which was built from Latin sponte, meaning 'of one's own free will,' plus a suffix that turned it into an adjective describing that quality.
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