Where does “assessment” come from?
Assessment derives from Middle English -ment, Old French -ment, Latin -mentum, and Latin assessus, the past participle of assideo, meaning to sit beside or assist in judging.
assessment (English): The act of assessing or an amount assessed; An...
Definitions
- The act of assessing or an amount assessed; An...
Ancestry of “assessment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | assess | To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to... |
| 2 | Middle English | assessen | to assess |
| 3 | Old French | assesser | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | assessare | — |
| 5 | Latin | assessus | seated beside one; a sitting beside someone |
| 6 | Latin | assideō | to sit by or near someone or something |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |