appoint

Meaning

1. (masculine) an amount of small change
2. (masculine) money which completes a payment, balances an account
3. (figuratively, masculine) complementary support

Concepts

contribution

appendix

complement

supplement

top-up

Synonyms

à-côté

addition

ajout

complément

supplément

surplus

Translations

completamento

katkı

yardım

παράρτημα

εταιρική κατάθεση

contributo

aanvulling

blinde darm

suppletie

aponch

retutèla

contribuição

contribución

Pronounced as (IPA)

/a.pwɛ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French: apoint

Inherited from Old French: apointier

In summary

Deverbal of appointer. from Old French apoint (“favorable occasion; resolution, agreement”), from Old French apointier (“to work out, solve”), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”).