Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - ment
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Ment
ment
noun suffix Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~um; akin to Latin -men, suffix denoting concrete result, Greek -mat-, -ma 1. a. concrete result, object, or agent of a (specified) action embankment entanglement b. concrete means or instrument of a (specified) action entertainment 2. a. action ; process encirclement development b. place of a (specified) action encampment 3. state or condition resulting from a (specified) action amazement
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1.
suffix. 1 forming nouns expressing the means or result of the action of a verb (abridgement; embankment). 2 forming nouns from adjectives (merriment; oddment). Etymology: from or after F f. L -mentum ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ suffix in nouns 1 the act, cause, means, or result of doing something (the need for strong government (=strong governing) | the replacement (=replacing)) (of obsolete machinery | some interesting new developments) 2 the condition of being treated in a particular way (his confinement (=being shut up)) (in prison) - -mental suffix (governmental) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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