## Etymology
From resign + -ment. Resign derives from Old French resigner, from Latin resignare ('to unseal, cancel, give up'), from re- ('back') + signare ('to mark, seal'), from signum ('mark, sign').

## AI Etymology
Resignment comes from resign + -ment. Resign derives from Old French resigner, from Latin resignare ('to unseal, cancel, give up'), from re- ('back') + signare ('to mark, seal'), from signum ('mark, sign'). The historical chain includes Latin resignare and Latin signum. Older glosses in the chain include "to unseal, cancel, give up", "back", "to mark, seal", and "mark, sign", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, resignment is best read as compound, suffixal formation, and borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "the act of resigning or relinquishing; resignation". related forms include resign, resignation, sign, and assign. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

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