additament

English

Etymology

From {der|en|la|additāmentum}}, from the past participle stem of addere (“to add”).

Noun

additament (plural additaments)

  1. (now archaic) An addition; something added. [from 14th c.]
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVII:
      Nature has furnish'd his foot with another additament much more curious and admirable, and that is, with a couple of Palms, Patterns or Soles […]
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      my persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age
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