-ment
a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament).
-ment
suffix
indicating state, condition, or quality enjoyment
indicating the result or product of an action embankment
indicating process or action management
word origin
from french, from latin -mentum
-ment
suffix forming nouns, originally from fr. and representing l. -mentum, which was added to verb stems sometimes to represent the result or product of the action. used with english verb stems from 16c. (e.g. merriment, which also ill-strates the habit of turning -y to -i- before this suffix).
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