commensurate

The story

1. Latin · derived frommēnsūra“measure”
2. Late Latin · borrowed fromcommēnsūrātus
3. English todaycommensurate

First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

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