Where does “amortize” come from?
Amortize comes from Middle French amortir, from Vulgar Latin admortire, combining Latin ad- with a root from Proto-Indo-European mer- meaning to rub or wear away.
amortize (English): To alienate in mortmain; To wipe out gradually...
Definitions
- To alienate in mortmain; To wipe out gradually...
Ancestry of “amortize”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | amortisen | to kill, alienate in mortmain |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | amorteser | — |
| 3 | Old French | amortir | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | admortire | to kill; present active infinitive of *admortēscō |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |