The story
- Latin · derived frommortuus“dead”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*admortīre
- Old French · derived fromamortir
- Middle English · inherited fromamortisen
- English todayamortize
From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishamortisen all →
amortization
Old Frenchamortir all →
amortization
Vulgar Latin*admortīre all →
amortization
Latinmortuus all →
mortuary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.