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tantamount

tan·ta·mount

UK/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ US/ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ rare obsolete

adjective

1.

used of the earliest known rocks

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Origin

First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).

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