Etymology

allotment

A1L1L1O1T1M3E1N1T1

Today it means: The act of allotting. Full definition →

Old French alotement
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old French · derived fromalotement
  2. English todayallotment

From Old French alotement (modern French allotement). By surface analysis, allot + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.