audit English · revision 13259

− It is late Middle English, from Latin [[m|la|audītus|t=a hearing, a listening]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from audīre, to hear (see [[audible]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) probably formed under the influence of the earlier [[auditor]] (before 1333).^(Barnhart 1988) In Medieval Latin auditus compoti was an audit of an account,^(SOED 2002)^(NODE 1998) because the official examination of accounts was originally oral.^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)