English
append
Append comes from Latin appendō ‘to hang up, suspend on, pay out’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- ‘to stretch’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)pend-‘to stretch’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)péndetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pendō‘to hang, put in a hanging position’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpendō‘to weigh, weigh out’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEappendōas appendere‘to hang up, suspend on, pay out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997append
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)pend-‘to stretch’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)péndetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pendō‘to hang, put in a hanging position’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpendō‘to weigh, weigh out’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEappendōas appendere‘to hang up, suspend on, pay out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997append
Earliest quotation: 1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures: “After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- ‘to stretch’
span, pound, depend, poise, pendant, pansy, pensive, 16 more
through Proto-Italic *pendō ‘to hang, put in a hanging position’
spending, suspension, suspend, spender, 13 more
through Latin pendō ‘to weigh, weigh out’
expensive, spend, compensation, expense, pension, compensate, expenditure, perpendicular, peso, dispensation, compendium, piso, recompense, expend, 16 more
through Latin appendō ‘to hang up, suspend on, pay out’
Today it means
verb To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- / append