mussitation

Etymology

A learned borrowing from Latin mussitātiō (“soft noise made by dogs, or (Late Latin) people”) plus English -ion (suffix denoting a condition or state). Mussitātiō itself derives from mussitātus (“kept quiet; having been kept quiet; murmured, muttered; having been muttered”) — see further at mussitate — plus -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs).