amend
English
/əˈmɛnd/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To make better; improve.
- (intransitive) To become better.
- (obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
- (obsolete) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
- (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English amenden derived from Old French amender derived from Latin ēmendō (free from faults) root from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (fault, physical defect).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mend-
Gloss
fault, physical defect
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- amendable English
- amendableness English
- amendation English
- amendatory English
- amender English
- amendest English
- amendeth English
- amendful English
- amends English
- emendable English
- mendicant English
- reamend English
- unamendable English
- amendamentum Latin
- emendator Latin
- emendo Latin
- emendo, ēmendō, ēmendāre Latin
- menda Latin
- mendax Latin
- mendum Latin
- ēmendāre Latin
- ēmendō Latin
- amender French
- *men- Proto-Indo-European
- *mend- Proto-Indo-European
- *méntis Proto-Indo-European
- amenden Middle English
- menden Middle English
- amender Old French
- emender Old French
- amendar Cebuano
- amender Norman
- amender Middle French
- *mendu- Proto-Celtic