Etymograph

English

agencement

Agencement comes from French agencement ‘arrangement, layout’, and goes back to agencer.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentagencer‘to arrange’
  2. French, derivedc. 1600–presentagencement‘arrangement, layout’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentagencer‘to arrange’
  2. French, derivedc. 1600–presentagencement‘arrangement, layout’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

noun A layout (of e.g., a store) set up for a particular purpose; the structure of an economic market.

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

Etymograph / French agencer / agencement