Where does “accomplishment” come from?
Accomplishment comes from Middle English -ment, Old French -ment, Latin -mentum (a suffix forming nouns denoting result or means), derived from Latin mens meaning mind, combined with Latin ad- and con-.
accomplishment (English): The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment;...
Definitions
- The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment;...
Ancestry of “accomplishment”, step by step
accomplishment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accomplish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accomplish | To finish successfully; To complete, as time or... |
| 2 | Middle English | accomplisshen | — |
| 3 | Old French | acomplir | to come to an end |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *(ac)complīre | — |
| 5 | Latin | compleō | to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via French accomplissement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | accomplissement | accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment |
| 2 | French | -ment | Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb |
| 3 | Middle French | -ment | Used to form adverbs, most of the time equivalent... |
| 4 | Old French | -ment | Used to form adverbs, most of the time equivalent... |
| 5 | Latin | -mentum | instrument, medium, or result of; e.g.... |
| 6 | Latin | -menta | nominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |