Etymology

entrustment

E1N1T1R1U1S1T1M3E1N1T1

Today it means: the act of entrusting Full definition →

English entrust ← Middle English en- ← Old French en-
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Englishtrust
  9. Englishentrust
  10. English todayentrustment

From entrust + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.