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Mid 19th century, from repair + -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (“a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture”), after Latin reparāmentum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The act of repairing. Full definition →
Mid 19th century, from repair + -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (“a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture”), after Latin reparāmentum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.