Where does “amenities” come from?
Amenities comes from French aménité, from Latin amoenitas (pleasantness), derived from Latin amoenus (pleasant), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots related to diminishment and threatening.
amenities (English): plural of amenity; API pl; The quality of being...
Definitions
- plural of amenity; API pl; The quality of being...
Ancestry of “amenities”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | aménité | niceness; agreeableness |
| 2 | Latin | amoenitās | pleasantness, pleasurableness, delightfulness, loveliness, agreeableness, charm |
| 3 | Latin | amoenus | charming, pleasant, agreeable; lovely,... |
| 4 | Latin | mino | I drive; I impel; I threaten |
| 5 | Latin | minor | comparative degree of parvus; lesser, inferior,... |
| 6 | Latin | minae | projecting points, pinnacles, battlements,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *eksmenā | — |