Etymograph

English

ademption

Ademption comes from Latin adēmptiō ‘a taking away’, from adēmptus ‘captured’, and ultimately from adimō ‘take away’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadimō1‘take away’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadēmptus1‘captured’perfect passive participle of adimō
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadēmptiō1‘a taking away’
  4. Englishtodayademption1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English ademption

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadimōWiktionary, English ademption‘take away’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadēmptusWiktionary, English ademption‘captured’perfect passive participle of adimō
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadēmptiōWiktionary, English ademption‘a taking away’
  4. EnglishtodayademptionWiktionary, English ademption

A compound of ad ‘to, towards, at’ + emō ‘buy’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’

Latin ad ‘to, towards, at’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take, distribute’

Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’

Latin emō ‘buy’

Every English word from Latin adimō

Today it means

noun In the law of wills, the determination of what happens when property left under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “ademption”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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