Where does “intolerant” come from?
intolerant (Danish) comes from French intolérant, from Latin intolerans, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
intolerant (Danish): intolerant (of a person, act, or the like)
Definitions
- intolerant (of a person, act, or the like)
Ancestry of “intolerant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | intolérant | intolerant; not tolerant |
| 2 | Latin | intolerans | impatient, intolerant; insufferable, intolerable |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 4 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |