tantamount - to be tantamount to sth.
Marianne Uehlin... - Fri, 03/09/2018 - 14:55
English Description:
1640s, from verbal phrase tant amount "be equivalent" (1620s), from Anglo-French tant amunter "amount to as much" (late 13c.), from Old French tant "as much" (11c., from Latin tantus, from tam "so;" see tandem) + amonter "amount to, go up" (see amount (v.)).
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