Pavement
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pavimentum ‘trodden down floor’, from pavire ‘beat, tread down’.
wiktionary
From Anglo-Norman pavement, Middle French pavement, and their source, Latin pavīmentum(“paved surface or floor”), from pavire(“to beat, to ram, to tread down”).
Morphologically pave + -ment
etymonline
pavement (n.)
mid-13c., "paved or tiled surface of ground," from Old French pavement "roadway, pathway; paving stone" (12c.) and directly from Latin pavimentum "hard floor, level surface beaten firm," from pavire "to beat, ram, tread down," from PIE root *pau- (2) "to cut, strike, stamp." From c. 1300 as "a paved roadway," gradually passing in modern times to the sense of "a sidewalk, paved footway on each side of a street." By 1878 as "material of which a pavement is made."
