assessment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an amount determined as payable

   the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership

2. 2
   noun

   An appraisal or evaluation.

   For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

4. 4
   noun

   the market value set on assets

5. 5
   noun

   the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

6. 6
   noun

   The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sedéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sedēō Latin sedeō Latin assideō Latin assessus Medieval Latin assessareder. Old French assesserbor. Middle English assessen English assess Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assessment From assess + -ment.