English
adjustment
Adjustment comes from French ajustement ‘adjustment, adjusting, tweak’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentajustement‘adjustment, adjusting, tweak’
- Englishtodayadjustment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentajustement‘adjustment, adjusting, tweak’
- Englishtodayadjustment
A compound of juste ‘fair, just’ + ajuster ‘to adjust’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- ‘straight, upright, right’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwos
Proto-Italic *jowos ‘court of law’
Archaic Latin *iowos
Archaic Latin iovestos
Latin iūstus ‘just, righteous’
Old French juste
French juste ‘fair, just’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- ‘straight, upright, right’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwos
Proto-Italic *jowos ‘court of law’
Archaic Latin *iowos
Archaic Latin iovestos
Latin iūstus ‘just, righteous’
Old French juste
French juste ‘fair, just’
French ajuster ‘to adjust’
Every English word from French ajustement
Today it means
noun The action of adjusting something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French ajustement / adjustment