Etymology

amusement

a·muse·ment
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Today it means: Entertainment. Full definition →

Middle French amusement ← Old French amuser ← Medieval Latin musumder.?
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Old Frencha-
  6. Medieval Latinmusumder.?
  7. Old Frenchmuser
  8. Old Frenchamuser
  9. Middle Frenchamuser
  10. Middle Frenchamusement
  11. English todayamusement

Borrowed from Middle French amusement, from amuser + -ment. Morphologically amuse + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.