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Where does “flexibilitat” come from?

flexibilitat (Catalan) comes from French flexibilité, from Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flexibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...

flexibilitat (Catalan): flexibility

Definitions

  1. flexibility

Ancestry of “flexibilitat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchflexibilitéflexibility; flexibleness
2Latinflexibilitās—
3Latinflexibilisflexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,...
4Latin-bilis-ble
5Proto-Italic-ðlis—
6Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
7Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
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