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

  1. The quality of being docile

Ancestry of “docility”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchdocilité—
2Latindocilitasdocility; gentleness
3Latindocilisdocile, teachable; manageable, tractable;...
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “docility”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from Latin docilis →