Etymograph

English

adjument

Adjument comes from Latin adiūmentum ‘help, assistance, support’, and goes back to adiuvō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiuvō1‘to help’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūmentum1‘help, assistance, support’inflected form of adiuvō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1656adjument1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English adjument
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall: “But by all things needful or requisite, all necessary…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiuvōWiktionary, English adjument‘to help’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadiūmentumWiktionary, English adjument‘help, assistance, support’inflected form of adiuvō
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1656adjumentWiktionary, English adjument. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall: “But by all things needful or requisite, all necessary…”

The story

Latin adiūmentum, for adiuvāmentum, inflected form of adiuvō (‘to help’), from ad- (‘toward, to’) + iuvō (‘to help’).

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Latin adiuvō ‘to help’

aid, jury, aide, adjutant, coadjutor, 8 more

Today it means

noun Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “adjument”. 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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