English
deployment
Deployment comes from French déploiement ‘deployment, deploying’, and goes back to Middle French desployer.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600desployer
- Frenchc. 1600–presentdéployer‘to deploy’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentdéploiement‘deployment, deploying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1861deployment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600desployer
- Frenchc. 1600–presentdéployer‘to deploy’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentdéploiement‘deployment, deploying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1861deployment
Earliest quotation: 1861, H. L. Scott: “Deployments […] which cause the soldier to turn his…”
Every English word from Middle French desployer
Today it means
noun An arrangement or classification of things.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French desployer / deployment