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ornament
ornament:
[14]
Ornament
comes from Latin
ōrnāmentum
, a derivative of the verb
ōrnāre
‘equip, get ready’, hence ‘decorate’. This also forms the basis of English
adorn
[14] and
suborn
[16] (etymologically ‘equip secretly’).
=>
adorn
,
suborn