Where does “habilitate” come from?

habilitate (English) comes from Latin habilitatus, from Latin habilito, from Latin habilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

habilitate (English): Qualified or entitled; To enable one to function...

Definitions

  1. Qualified or entitled; To enable one to function...

Ancestry of “habilitate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinhabilitatus
2LatinhabilitoI habilitate; I enable, I make able; I empower
3Latinhabilisable to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient...
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “habilitate”

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