installment

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 2 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Usage notes 1.4.1.2 Synonyms 1.4.1.3 Translations 1.5 References

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• instalment (Commonwealth) ( - In the UK, instalment is the standard spelling.)

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn-stôlʹmənt, IPA: /ɪnˈstɔːlmənt/, SAMPA: /In"stO:lm@nt/

[edit] Etymology 1

From install, itself from medieval French installer, from medieval Latin installare, from Latin in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, cfr. infra)

[edit] Noun

installment (plural installments)

1. The act of installing; installation.

   Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.

2. (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.

   The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.

[edit] Synonyms

• investiture, investment
• installation

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“‘fix payments’”), from Old French estal (“‘fixed position’”), from Old High German stal (“‘stall", "standing place’”)

The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

[edit] Noun

installment (plural installments)

1. A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal viz. regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
2. a part of a broadcast or published serial.
3. anything that is performed in parts, spread in time

[edit] Usage notes

For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment. Commonwealth usage varies.

[edit] Synonyms

• (portion of a debt):
• (part of a broadcast or published serial): episode, part

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• installment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “installment” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 [1]