Where does “adjustment” come from?
Adjustment comes from French ajustement, formed with the Old French suffix -ment (from Latin -mentum) added to a root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European men- meaning to think or intend.
adjustment (English): The action of adjusting something; The result of...
Definitions
- The action of adjusting something; The result of...
Ancestry of “adjustment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | ajustement | adjustment, adjusting, tweak |
| 2 | French | ajuster | to adjust; tweak |
| 3 | French | juste | fair, just; reasonable, appropriate, grounded;... |
| 4 | Old French | juste | — |
| 5 | Latin | iūstus | just, righteous |
| 6 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 7 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |