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amount

/əˈmaʊnt/uh-MOWNT
/əˈmaʊnt/uh-MOWNT

Meaningto climb up to

Common meaning: a total

Other meanings: to add up to

‘to, towards, at (Latin ad-, often through French a-)’ + ‘a mountain, high ground’ → amount

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MAN‘project’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 261, p. 739 · scan
  2. Latinmōns, montis‘a mountain, high ground’
  3. Old Frenchamontersource
  4. Middle Englishamountensource
  5. Englishamount‘a total’ · today

a- also in: amuseapartavailaplombascend

mount also in: mountmountainparamount

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin mōns ‘a mountain, high ground’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry mōns, p. 1162 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry PARAMOUNT, p. 420 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

mountmountainparamount

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