Other forms: admonished, admonishes, admonishing
To admonish is to tell somebody off gently but firmly. Admonish him for it, admonished the jury, gently admonished.
It carries advice rather than punishment, which is what separates it from rebuke. In court it is a formal step, since a judge may admonish a jury about what they must ignore.
1verbadmonishTo tell somebody off gently but firmly.
“The teacher admonished the boys for running in the corridor.”
admonish is a warning.
Old French amonester comes from Latin admonere, to warn, from ad plus monere, to advise.
Proto-Indo-European
*men-
Latin
admoneō — to remind, warn
Old French
amonester
Middle English
admonisshen
English, today
admonish
Built from
Middle English admonisshen (adapted through -ishen (“-ish”) from earlier amonesten), from Old French amonester (modern French admonester), from an unattested Latin - or Vulgar Latin - *admonestāre, from Latin admoneō (“to remind, warn”), from ad- + moneō (“to warn, advise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA