Where does “docility” come from?
Docility comes from Middle French docilité and Latin docilitas, derived from docilis meaning teachable or apt to learn.
docility (English): The quality of being docile
Definitions
- The quality of being docile
Ancestry of “docility”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | docilité | — |
| 2 | Latin | docilitas | docility; gentleness |
| 3 | Latin | docilis | docile, teachable; manageable, tractable;... |
| 4 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “docility”