Etymology

endowment

E1N1D2O1W4M3E1N1T1

Today it means: Something with which a person or thing is endowed. Full definition →

Middle English endowement
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromendowement
  2. English todayendowment

From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.