Where does “facility” come from?
Facility comes from Middle French facilité, from Latin facilitas meaning ease, from Latin facilis meaning easy, derived from Latin facio meaning to make or do, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-.
facility (English): The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence...
Definitions
- The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence...
Ancestry of “facility”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | facilité | — |
| 2 | Latin | facilitās | ease, easiness, facility, readiness |
| 3 | French | facilité | ease, easiness; past participle of faciliter;... |
| 4 | Latin | facilitatem | accusative singular of facilitās |
| 5 | Latin | facilitas | ease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness;... |
| 6 | Latin | facul | easily |
| 7 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |