admonishment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English admonish

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English admonishment

From admonish + -ment.

Noun

admonishment (countable and uncountable, plural admonishments)

1. The act of admonishing.

   Synonyms: admonition, monishment, reprimand, reproach, reproof; see also Thesaurus:criticism

   Coordinate terms: monition; see also Thesaurus:advice

Translations

the act of admonishing — see also admonition

• Bulgarian: предупреждение (bg) n (predupreždenie)
• German: Rüge (de) f, Ermahnung (de) f
• Indonesian: teguran (id)
• Japanese: 戒告 (ja) (かいこく, kaikoku)
• Portuguese: admoestação (pt) f
• Russian: порицание (ru) (poricanije), увещание (ru) n (uveščanije), предостережение (ru) n (predostereženije), замечание (ru) n (zamečanije), указание (ru) n (ukazanije)
• Spanish: amonestación (es) f