Where does “entirety” come from?
Entirety comes from Old French entiereté, from Latin integritas meaning "wholeness" or "completeness," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₁én meaning "being" or "entity."
entirety (English): The whole; the complete or amount
Definitions
- The whole; the complete or amount
Ancestry of “entirety”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | entiereté | — |
| 2 | Latin | integritās | soundness |
| 3 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |