Etymograph

English

aggiornamento

Aggiornamento comes from Italian aggiornamento ‘updating’, from French ajourner ‘to postpone’, and ultimately from Old French ajorner.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ajorner
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentajourner‘to postpone’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentaggiornare‘update’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentaggiornamento‘updating’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1998same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ajorner
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentajourner‘to postpone’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentaggiornare‘update’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentaggiornamento‘updating’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1998same form

Earliest quotation: 1998, Jerzy Linderski, Part 2": “Buonocore's comments and bibliographical aggiornamenti are again exemplary.”

Linked words

through Old French ajorner

adjourn

Today it means

noun Synonym of update, especially in reference to Italian scholarship or (Roman Catholicism) the updating of doctrine and practices by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the 1962–1965 Second Vatican Council.

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

Etymograph / Old French ajorner / aggiornamento

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