Other forms: amendments
An amendment is an official change added to a law or a constitution. Table an amendment, the First Amendment, an amendment was defeated.
In parliament, amendments are proposed to bills and voted on before the bill itself. In the American constitution, the Amendments are numbered and the first ten are the Bill of Rights, which is why the First and Second Amendments are household phrases. Note amend, meaning to change; and emend, which means to correct a text and is a different word almost nobody uses.
1nounamendmentAn official change added to a law or constitution.
“Parliament passed an amendment to the law that protects workers' rights.”
amendment is an official change.
Latin emendare means to remove a fault — ex- plus menda, a flaw. Amend, mend and emend are all the same verb, so amending a law is mending it.
Proto-Indo-European
*mend-
French
amendement
English, today
amendment
From French amendement. From French amendement, from Latin amendamentum, equivalent to amend + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA