agency; department; office (state institution responsible for specified concerns) · office; post (public function, e.g. of a civil servant) · mass; office
köken: From Middle High German ambahte, ambehte, ambet, ammet, ampt, ambt, amt, from Old High German ambahti, ambaht, from Proto-West Germanic *ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos. The Middle High German contracted form amb(e)t developed quite regularly, via also attested ammet or ambt, into modern German Amt. Cognate with Dutch ambacht and ambt,…
köken: From Old Church Slavonic санъ (sanŭ) (u-stem), probably of Oghur origin. Cognate with Turkish san (“reputation”), Turkmen san (“account”), Kazakh санау (sanau, “count”), Tatar san (“number”) and akin to dial. Turkish sаnаmаk (“to take into account”), Uzbek sanamoq (“to count”) from Proto-Turkic *sā(j)- (“to count, to determine”).
treatment (process or manner of treating) · treatment (medical care for an illness or injury) · treatment (the use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something)
title, heading (name of book, film, project, etc) · title, honorific (additions to someone's name intended to add dignity) · titles, credits (at beginning and end of film)