Where does “arraignment” come from?
Arraignment comes from Middle English -ment, Old French -ment, Latin -mentum, combining Latin ad- and Latin ad from Proto-Indo-European ád, with Proto-Indo-European men- as the root element.
arraignment (English): The formal charging of a defendant with an...
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Ancestry of “arraignment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | arraign | To officially charge someone in a court of law;... |
| 2 | Middle English | areynen | To interrogate or probe someone; to ask for an account |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | areiner | — |
| 4 | Old French | araisnier | to address (someone); to speak to (someone) |
| 5 | Latin | adrationare | — |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |