appoint
Pronunciation: /a.pwɛ̃/
“appoint” is a French word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
In French
- Complément d’une somme en petite monnaie.
- Somme qui sert à solder un compte commercial.
- Appui complémentaire.
Etymology
Deverbal of appointer. from Old French apoint (“favorable occasion; resolution, agreement”), from Old French apointier (“to work out, solve”), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”).
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More French words
- appoggiature inférieure
- appoggiature mélodique
- appoggiature supérieure
- appogiaturé
- appointage
- appointemens
- appointement
- appointer
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