Added up to a total or came to a particular sum or significance.
From Old French 'amunter,' formed from 'a-' (to) and 'mont' (mountain/amount), originally meaning 'to go up.' The meaning shifted to mathematical totaling by the 13th century.
The word's journey from 'to climb' to 'to total' shows how medieval accountants thought of numbers stacking up like mountains—a great metaphor for how language borrows from physical experience.
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