The story
- Latin · derived frommonumentum“memorial, monument, tomb”
- Old French · derived frommonument
- Middle English · inherited frommonument
- English todaymonument
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”). Partially displaced Old English bēacn.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.