installment

installment · noun¹

1. Old High German · derived fromstal“stall", "standing place”
2. Old French · derived fromestal“fixed position”
3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromestaler“fix payments”
4. English todayinstallment

A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“fix payments”), from Old French estal (“fixed position”), from Old High German stal (“stall", "standing place”) The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

installment · noun²

1. Medieval Latin · derived fromstallum
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromin-
3. Medieval Latin · derived frominstallare
4. Old French · derived frominstaller
5. English todayinstallment

From install + -ment, install from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installare, from Medieval Latin in- and Medieval Latin stallum, stall from a Germanic source (compare Old High German stal).

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