Where does “durability” come from?

Durability comes from Old French durabilité, from Latin durabilitas (quality of lasting), from the Latin suffix -tas added to durabilis (able to last), from durus (hard, lasting) and -bilis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European drew- (firm, solid).

durability (English): Permanence by virtue of the power to resist...

Definitions

  1. Permanence by virtue of the power to resist...

Ancestry of “durability”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdurabilité
2Latindurabilitasdurability
3Latindūrābilisdurable, lasting
4Latindūrōto harden, make hard
5Latindūrus
6Proto-Italicdūros
7Proto-Indo-Europeanduh₂-ró-slong, far
8Proto-Indo-Europeandweh₂-far; long

Words derived from “durability

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dweh₂-