Appends

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Adds extra information or material at the end of a text or document
2. Attaches additional content following the main part, usually in writing
3. Inserts supplementary data or remarks after the main body of a document

Etymology: "Appends" is the third-person singular form of "append," so the core story belongs to the verb itself. Its roots lie in Latin "appendere," meaning "to hang up" or "to suspend on," built from "ad" ("on, upon, against") and "pendere" ("to suspend, hang"). The same "pend" root gives us "pendant," a thing hung from something else. The verb passed through Old French "apendre" and "appendre" before arriving in Middle English as "appenden." Its original sense was physical: to hang something on something, or to pay out. English also had an older, unrelated-looking cousin in Old English "appenden" and "apenden," meaning "to belong," which shows how the word could drift from hanging to belonging. The modern sense, adding supplementary material after a document's main body, grows naturally from that picture of hanging one thing onto another. A footnote, a postscript, or an appendix is literally a piece hung on at the end.

Synonyms: adds, includes, affixes, attaches, supplements

Antonyms: removes, subtracts, excludes, detracts, discards