Where does “acceptability” come from?
Acceptability derives from English acceptable plus the French suffix -ité, which comes from Latin -itas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -it-, with the root from Latin acceptabilis.
acceptability (English): The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness;...
Definitions
- The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness;...
Ancestry of “acceptability”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | acceptable | worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or... |
| 2 | Middle English | acceptable | Pleasant, agreeable; causing a positive reception |
| 3 | Middle French | acceptable | — |
| 4 | Latin | acceptabilis | acceptable |
| 5 | Latin | acceptō | to take, receive, accept (regularly) |
| 6 | Latin | accipiō | to receive, accept, take |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |