Etymology

delivery

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Today it means: The act of conveying something. Full definition →

Middle English deliveri ← Old French delivrer
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromdelivrer
  2. Middle English · inherited fromdeliveri
  3. English todaydelivery

From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchdelivrer all →

deliver

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.