Amounted
/əˈmaʊn.tɪd/noun
Past tense and past participle of amount, meaning to add up to or total a specified number.
Did you know?Amount comes through Old French from Latin ad montem, literally ‘to the mountain,’ originally meaning to go up or rise higher before it became a word for total value.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
ad montem
“toward a mountain; upward to a height”
Old French
Old French
amonter
“to go up, rise; later, to amount to”
Middle English
English
amounten
“to rise to, come to a total”
Modern English
English
amount
“to total, add up to”
Modern English
English
amounted
“past tense/past participle of amount”
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