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- Latin · derived fromornamentum“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”
- Old French · derived fromornement
- Middle English · derived fromornament
- English todayornament
From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.