" appending "

[Verb]  | "ap*pend" | \ ə-ˈpend \

1: attach, affix

2: to add as a supplement or appendix (as in a book)

Origin: circa 1509 ;

 Borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French apendre "to hang from something, suspend," borrowed from Late Latin appendere (Latin, "to pay or give out by weight"), from Latin ap- {see: |ap-:1|ad-} + pendere "to weigh, have a weight of" {mat|pendent|};

  * Note : In the sense "to cause to be suspended, hang," the verb appendere is attested in classical Latin only once, in a line of verse attributed to Plautus; otherwise it means only "to pay or give out by weight" and is clearly a compound of ad- and the transitive verb pendere "to weigh." In addition to the line of Plautus, another piece of evidence for an earlier meaning of appendere would appear to be the noun appendix "something subordinate attached to a larger unit," attested since Cicero and Livy—see: {appendix|appendix}. Uses of appendere in Late Latin (Historia Augusta, Palladius), where it again means "to suspend," probably employ a new spoken Latin verb *pendere "to hang" (see: note at {pendent|pendent}).;

[Verb]  | "appending" 

[Verb]  | "append"