Where does “achievement” come from?
Achievement derives from Middle French achevement and Old French achevement, built from Old French -ment and Latin -mentum, combined with Latin ad and Proto-Indo-European ád, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kauput- and men-.
achievement (English): The act of achieving or performing; a successful...
Definitions
- The act of achieving or performing; a successful...
Ancestry of “achievement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | achevement | — |
| 2 | Old French | achevement | act of finishing, of ending; accomplishment;... |
| 3 | Old French | achever | — |
| 4 | Latin | accapāre | finish |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |