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Competition is borrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin competītiō, from Latin competō ‘to come together’, from con- + petō.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpetō¹‘to seek’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompetō¹‘to come together, meet’
3. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcompetītiō¹
4. Frenchc. 1600–presentcompétition¹
5. Englishearliest quotation 1897competition¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English competition
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1897, Winston Churchill: “The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to…”.