adjute
English
Etymology
From Middle French adjouter (modern French ajouter),[1] from Old French ajoster, from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre. The spelling was perhaps reinforced by folk-etymological association with Classical Latin adiūtō (“to help”) (which Samuel Johnson[2] gives as the etymology and meaning).[1] Possibly a doublet of adjust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒuːt/
Verb
adjute (third-person singular simple present adjutes, present participle adjuting, simple past and past participle adjuted)
- (ambitransitive, obsolete, rare) To add, include.
- 1633, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Kings Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottingham-shire, […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, page 276:
- For there be / Sixe Batchelers, as bold as hee, / Adjuting to his Companee, / And each one hath his Liverie; […]
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “adjute, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “To ADJU′TE. v. a.”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, signature I, verso, column 2: “[adjuvo, adjutum, Lat.] To help; to concur; a word not now in uſe.”
- With a quotation of Ben Jonson (see quotations).
Latin
Participle
adjūte
- vocative masculine singular of adjūtus