Where does “inhumanity” come from?
Inhumanity comes from Middle French inhumanité, from Latin inhumanitas, composed of the Latin prefix in- and Latin in from Proto-Indo-European ne meaning "not," combined with a formation from Proto-Indo-European dʰéǵʰōm.
inhumanity (English): The lack of compassion; An inhuman act
Definitions
- The lack of compassion; An inhuman act
Ancestry of “inhumanity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | inhumanité | — |
| 2 | Latin | inhumanitas | inhumanity; barbarity, savagery; surliness,... |
| 3 | Latin | humanitas | humanity, human nature; humaneness, humane... |
| 4 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 5 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 6 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |