Etymograph

English

amendment

Amendment comes from French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum (equivalent to amend + -ment).

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEamendamentum
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentamendement
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2014amendment

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEamendamentum
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentamendement
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2014amendment

Earliest quotation: 2014, Ian Black, Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis: “Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in…”

Formed from amend + -ment

Latin ēmendō ‘free from faults’

Old French amender ‘to correct’

Middle English amenden

English amend

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *mend- ‘foal, small horse’

mend, 14 more

Today it means

noun An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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

Etymograph / Late Latin amendamentum / amendment

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