The story
- Latin · derived fromad-
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*admortire“to kill”
- Old French · derived fromamortir
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromamorteser
- Middle English · inherited fromamortisen“to kill, alienate in mortmain”
- English todayamortization
From Middle English amortisen (“to kill, alienate in mortmain”), from Anglo-Norman amorteser, alteration of Old French amortir, from Vulgar Latin *admortire (“to kill”), from Latin ad- and mors, mortem (“death”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishamortisen all →
amortize
Old Frenchamortir all →
amortize
Vulgar Latin*admortire all →
amortize
Latinad- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.