enroll

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To officially join a course, school, or organization.

   Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

2. 2
   verb

   To officially sign someone up as a member or participant.

   They were eager to enroll new recruits.

Simplified etymology

Enrol entered English in the later Middle English period and originally referred to names being written on a roll. Roll itself ultimately goes back to Latin rotula, meaning “little wheel.”

From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.

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