endowen
Middle English
/ɛnˈduːən/
verb
Definitions
- To endow with money, rights, advantages, or other benefits.
- To endow or furnish with an innate property or faculty.
- (rare) To benefit a realm with a good king.
Etymology
Borrowed from endouer affix from Middle English dowen.
Origin
Middle English
dowen
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disendow English
- endow English
- endowable English
- endower English
- endowest English
- endoweth English
- endowment English
- reendow English
- dowarye Middle English
- dowen Middle English
- dower Middle English
- endowable Middle English
- endowement Middle English
- endowynge Middle English
- douer Old French
- en- Old French
- endouer xno