amender

amend +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)

amender (plural amenders)

1. One who amends.

• Merenda, enarmed, meander, reamend, reedman, renamed

From Old French amender, from Latin ēmendāre (“to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”).

• IPA^(key): /a.mɑ̃.de/

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amender

1. (transitive) to amend
2. (transitive) to improve (e.g. land, conduct)
3. (transitive, figuratively) to mend (one's ways), reform

• “amender”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• méandre, méandré

Old French amender < Latin ēmendō.

amender

1. to improve
2. to fine (impose a financial penalty upon)

• French: amender

• amender on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, ēmendāre (“free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”).

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amender

1. (Jersey) to improve

Latin ēmendāre, present active infinitive of ēmendō (“I free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure”). The prefixes a- and es- are often used interchangeably in Old French.

amender

1. to correct; to set right
2. to fix; to repair
3. (of an illness, etc.) to cure

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.