The story
- Latin · derived from-mentum
- Old French · derived from-ment
- Middle English · inherited from-ment
- English today-ment
From Middle English -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
-ment
Today it means: Attached to a verb to form a noun meaning the action denoted by the verb or its result. Full definition →
Middle English -ment ← Old French -ment ← Latin -mentum