Where does “inanity” come from?
Inanity comes from French inanité, from Latin inanitas, from Latin inanus meaning empty.
inanity (English): The property of being inane, of lacking material...
Definitions
- The property of being inane, of lacking material...
Ancestry of “inanity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | inanité | inanity; futility |
| 2 | Latin | inānitās | emptiness, empty space |
| 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 |