assortment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English assort

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English assortment

From assort + -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔːtmənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

assortment (plural assortments)

1. A collection of varying but related items.

   This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

   The tool and die department stocks various hardware assortments, such as cap screws in most thread sizes and assorted lengths.

Synonyms

• diversity, Whitman's sampler
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Derived terms

• reassortment

Related terms

• assorted

Translations

collection of varying but related items

• Bulgarian: избор (bg) (izbor), асортимент (bg) (asortiment), сортиране (bg) (sortirane)
• Catalan: assortiment m
• Czech: kolekce (cs) f
• Dutch: assortiment (nl) n
• Finnish: valikoima (fi), lajitelma (fi), joukko (fi)
• French: assortiment (fr) m
• Georgian: ასორტი (asorṭi)
• German: Auswahl (de) f, Sortiment (de) n, ausgewählte Zusammenstellung f
• Hungarian: választék (hu)
• Ido: sortaro, asortajo (io), asorto (io)
• Italian: assortimento (it) m, varietà (it) f
• Korean: 모음 (mo'eum)
• Polish: asortyment (pl) m
• Portuguese: sortimento m
• Russian: ассортиме́нт (ru) m (assortimént), набо́р (ru) m (nabór), колле́кция (ru) f (kollékcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m
• Spanish: surtido (es) m, variedad (es) f, colección (es) f
• Ukrainian: асортиме́нт (uk) m (asortymént)