Adjourn
/əˈdʒɜːrn/noun
To suspend a meeting or legal proceeding and resume it later.
Did you know?Adjourn comes through Old French from Latin diurnus, “daily,” so its original force was about moving something to another day rather than ending it forever.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
diurnus
“daily; belonging to the day”
Late Latin
Latin
adiurnare
“to put off to another day”
Old French
Old French
ajourner
“to postpone until the next day; to summon to appear on a day”
14th Century
Middle English
ajournen
“to postpone or defer to another day”
Modern English
English
adjourn
“to suspend a meeting or proceeding temporarily”