English
endoss
Endoss comes from Old French endosser.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400endosser
- Englishearliest quotation 1596endoss
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400endosser
- Englishearliest quotation 1596endoss
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book V, Canto XI: “he […] Gave me a shield, in which he…”
Every English word from Old French endosser
Today it means
verb To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French endosser / endoss