English
environment
Environment comes from Middle French environnement.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600environnement
- Englishearliest quotation 1998environment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600environnement
- Englishearliest quotation 1998environment
Earliest quotation: 1998, Jonathan Rauch, Tunnel Vision: The Dawn of Microgovernment: “What was seen from the top down, as a…”
Every English word from Middle French environnement
Today it means
noun The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French environnement / environment