[1840–50; ‹ NL; L: garment, covering, equiv. to L indu(ere) to put on, don (ind-, by-form of in- in2 + -uere, from a v. base *eu- or *ou- (˃ ū-), akin to OCS obuti, Lith aũti to put on (shoes); cf. exuviae) + -mentum -ment]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bypass, colloid, flan, pylon, striation-ment is a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament)