Where does “admonishment” come from?
Admonishment comes from Middle English admonesten, from Old French -ment and Latin -mentum, ultimately from Latin ad and Proto-Indo-European ád and men-.
admonishment (English): The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke
Definitions
- The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke
Ancestry of “admonishment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | admonish | To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently... |
| 2 | Middle English | admonesten | — |
| 3 | Old French | amonester | to admonish |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | admonestare | — |
| 5 | Latin | admoneō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |