Where does “judgment” come from?
Judgment comes from Middle English juggement, from Old French jugement, combining Old French juger with the suffix -ment from Latin -mentum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to speak or think.
judgment (English): The act of judging; The power or faculty of...
Definitions
- The act of judging; The power or faculty of...
Ancestry of “judgment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | juggement | judgment |
| 2 | Old French | jugement | judgment |
| 3 | Late Latin | iudicamentum | — |
| 4 | Latin | iūdicō | to examine judicially, judge, pass judgement, decide; condemn |
| 5 | Latin | iūdex | judge |
| 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 |