Where does “flexibility” come from?
Flexibility comes from French flexibilité, derived from Late Latin flexibilitas, from Latin flexibilis, combining flexus with the Latin suffix -ibilis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ and -tós.
flexibility (English): The quality of being flexible; suppleness;...
Definitions
- The quality of being flexible; suppleness;...
Ancestry of “flexibility”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | flexibilité | flexibility; flexibleness |
| 2 | Latin | flexibilitās | flexibility |
| 3 | Latin | flexibilis | flexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,... |
| 4 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |