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From Middle English -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

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-ment (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -ments)

1. Attached to a verb to form a noun meaning the action denoted by the verb or its result.

• Generally attached to stem without changes, except when the stem ends in -dge, where the -e is sometimes dropped, as in abridgment, acknowledgment, judgment, and lodgment, with the forms without -e being preferred in American English. Of these, judgment is the most significant, and usage varies globally; see Judgment: Spelling for discussion.

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• -ing

• -ent

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Inherited from Latin mente.

-ment

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

   ‎rapida (“rapid”) + ‎-ment → ‎rapidament (“rapidly”)

The resulting adverb is an oxytone where the corresponding adjective is a paroxytone, as in [raˈpiðə] → [ˌrapiðəˈmen].

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈment]

Inherited from Latin mente.

-ment

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

   ‎ràpida (“rapid”) + ‎-ment → ‎ràpidament (“rapidly”)

The resulting adverb has secondary stress where the corresponding adjective has primary stress, as in [ˈrapiðə] → [ˌrapiðəˈmen].

Inherited from Latin -mentum.

-ment m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ments)

2. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

   ‎patir (“to suffer”) + ‎-ment → ‎patiment (“suffering”)

From Latin mente.

-ment (ORB, broad)

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

   ‎ôtra (“other”) + ‎-ment → ‎ôtrament (“otherwise”)

From Latin -mentum.

-ment m (plural -ments) (ORB, broad)

2. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃/

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Inherited from Middle French -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin mente.

-ment

1. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

   ‎franche + ‎-ment → ‎franchement

With adjectives ending in -ant(e), -ent(e), the suffix combines with the ending to produce -amment, -emment (both pronounced /a.mɑ̃/).

Inherited from Middle French -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

-ment m

1. forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state

   ‎parer + ‎-ment → ‎parement

   ‎abandonner + ‎-ment → ‎abandonnement

   ‎manier + ‎-ment → ‎maniement

• → Norwegian Bokmål: -ment
• → Swedish: -mang

Borrowed from Sicilian -menti and Italian -mente, both from Latin mente.

• IPA^(key): /mɛnt/

-ment

1. Forms adverbs from adjectives; -ly

• Generally restricted to adjectives of Romance origin, but occasional exceptions such as ħerqanament (“eagerly”) are attestable.

From Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɛnt/

-ment

1. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• English: -ment
• Scots: -ment

• “-ment, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-2.

Inherited from Old French -ment, from Latin mente, from mēns, from Proto-Italic *mentis, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis, from *men- + *-tis.

-ment

1. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

• French: -ment

Inherited from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum, from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom, from *-mn̥.

-ment m

1. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• French: -ment
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: -ment
  • → Swedish: -mang

From Old French -ment, from Latin mente.

-ment

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

From Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

-ment

2. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

From Latin -mentum.

• IPA^(key): /mɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Hyphenation: -ment

-ment (definite singular neuter -mentet, definite singular masculine -menten, indefinite plural -ment or -menter, definite plural -mentene or -menta)

2. Used to form nouns from verbal stems, often denoting an action, means or state; -ment

   dokument, eksperiment, fundament, instrument, medikament, pigment ― document, experiment, foundation, instrument, drug, pigment

From French -ment, from Latin -mentum.

• IPA^(key): /maŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Hyphenation: -ment

-ment (definite singular neuter -mentet, definite singular masculine -menten, indefinite plural -ment or -menter, definite plural -mentene or -menta)

2. Used to form nouns often denoting action, means or state; -ment

   abonnement, arrangement, bombardement, resonnement, signalement ― subscription, event, bombardment, reasoning, signaling

• “-ment” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “-ment” in Store norske leksikon

• ment, nemt

From Old Occitan -ment, from Latin mente.

-ment

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

From Old Occitan -ment, from Latin -mentum.

-ment

2. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnt/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmant/

Inherited from Latin mente, from mēns, from Proto-Italic *mentis, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis, from *men- + *-tis.

-ment

1. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

• Middle French: -ment
  • French: -ment
• Norman: -ment

Inherited from Latin -mentum, from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom, from *-mn̥.

-ment m

1. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• Middle French: -ment
  • French: -ment
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: -ment
    • → Swedish: -mang
• → Middle English: -ment
  • English: -ment
  • Scots: -ment

From Latin mente.

-ment

2. Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.

• Occitan: -ment

From Latin -mentum.

-ment

2. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

• Occitan: -ment

From Middle English -ment.

• IPA^(key): /mənt/

-ment

1. Forms nouns from verbs, usually indicating a resulting action or state.

-ment

1. -ment; form nouns from verbs. See also -mang.