adjute

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/əˈd͡ʒuːt/

verb

To add, include.

OriginMiddle French adjouter ← Old French ajoster ← Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre →
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Meanings

verbadjute (third-person singular simple present adjutes, present participle adjuting, simple past and past participle adjuted)

present singular third person adjutes · participle present adjuting · participle past adjuted · past adjuted

  1. ambitransitiveobsoleterareTo add, include.

    For there be / Sixe Batchelers, as bold as hee, / Adjuting to his Companee, / And each one hath his Liverie; […]

    1633, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Kings Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottingham-shire, […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, page 276

Origin

  1. Vulgar Latin*adiuxtāre
  2. Old Frenchajoster
  3. Middle Frenchadjouter
  4. Englishadjute

From Middle French adjouter (modern French ajouter), from Old French ajoster, from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre. The spelling was perhaps reinforced by folk-etymological association with Classical Latin adiūtō (“to help”) (which Samuel Johnson gives as the etymology and meaning). Possibly a doublet of adjust.

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APA

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MLA

“adjute.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adjute. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adjute,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adjute.

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