The story
- Latin · derived fromdis-“away”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromdiscomputō“to deduct, discount”
- Old French · derived fromdisconter
- French · derived fromdescompte
- English todaydiscount
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.
Words from the same roots
Latindis- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.