Etymograph

English

addition

Addition comes from Latin addō ‘add, put’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaddō‘add’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadditiō
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400adition
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500addicioun
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602addition

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaddō‘add’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadditiō
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400adition
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500addicioun
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602addition

Earliest quotation: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet: “[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe /…”

The story

Sense of “what is added” dates from 14th century, from Middle English addicioun, addition, from Old French adition, from Latin additiōnem, accusative singular of additiō, from addō (‘add, put’).

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’

data, date, die, rent, dose, delicious, surrender, donate, vent, vendor, render, donor, treason, dow, tradition, donation, rendezvous, anecdote, dowry, antidote, condone, dowager, rendition, endow, dower, dative, dacha, dati, sconce, perdition, 40 more

through Latin addō ‘add, put’

add, addendum, 4 more

Today it means

noun The act of adding anything.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / addition

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