Where does “reappointment” come from?
Reappointment comes from Middle French apointement, Old French re-, Latin re- (again), and Proto-Indo-European wer- (to turn or bend).
reappointment (English): An act of reappointing
Definitions
- An act of reappointing
Ancestry of “reappointment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | appointment | The act of appointing a person to hold an office... |
| 2 | English | appoint | To set, fix or determine by authority or... |
| 3 | Middle English | apointen | — |
| 4 | Old French | apointier | to prepare; to equip; to treat |
| 5 | Old French | pointier | — |
| 6 | Old French | point | a sting; a prick; moment; time; dot |
| 7 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 8 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 9 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |