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noun the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
originFrom Latin affusio, from Latin affundō (“to pour or sprinkle onto”), from Latin fundō (“to pour”), from Proto-Italic *hundō (“to pour out”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0