assessment

noun
/əˈsɛsmənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sedéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sedēō Latin sedeō Latin assideō Latin assessus Medieval Latin assessareder. Old French assesserbor. Middle English assessen English assess Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assessment From assess + -ment.

  1. derived from assessus
  2. derived from assessare
  3. derived from assesser
  4. inherited from assessen
  5. suffixed as assessment — “assess + ment

Definitions

  1. The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

  2. An appraisal or evaluation.

    • […] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at assessment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at assessment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at assessment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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