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appointment

ap·point·ment

Today it means: The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust. Full definition →

Middle English appoyntement ← Old French appointement

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Old French · derived fromappointement
Middle English · inherited fromappoyntement
English todayappointment

From Middle English appoyntement, apoyntement, from Old French appointement, equivalent to appoint + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.