Where does “infacility” come from?
infacility (English) comes from English facility, from Middle French facilité, from Latin facilitās, from French facilité, from Latin facilitatem, from Latin facilitas, from Latin facul, from Latin facilis.
infacility (English): The inability to quickly adjust one’s focus when looking from near to far (or the converse)
Definitions
- The inability to quickly adjust one’s focus when looking from near to far (or the converse)
Ancestry of “infacility”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | facility | The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence... |
| 2 | Middle French | facilité | — |
| 3 | Latin | facilitās | ease, easiness, facility, readiness |
| 4 | French | facilité | ease, easiness; past participle of faciliter;... |
| 5 | Latin | facilitatem | accusative singular of facilitās |
| 6 | Latin | facilitas | ease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness;... |
| 7 | Latin | facul | easily |
| 8 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |