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-ment

suffix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment From Middle English -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

  1. derived from -mentum
  2. derived from -ment
  3. inherited from -ment

Definitions

  1. Attached to a verb to form a noun meaning the action denoted by the verb or its result.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA