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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

-mony repr. (1) L. -mōnia, as in acrimony, ceremony, (2) -mōnium, as in matrimony, testimony, and both in alimony, ceremony; rel. by gradation to -men (as in forāmen opening), of which -mentum -MENT is an extended form.

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