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Where does “languor” come from?

Languor comes from Middle English langour, from Middle French langour, from Old French languerer and Old French langueur, meaning a state of physical or mental weakness.

languor (English): A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion...

Definitions

  1. A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion...

Ancestry of “languor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishlangorelanguor
2Middle Frenchlanguer—
3Old Frenchlangueurdisease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue,...
4Latinlanguorfaintness, feebleness, languor, apathy
5Latin-orused to form a third-declension masculine...
6Proto-Italic-ōsCreates masculine action nouns or result nouns...
7Proto-Indo-European-ōsCreates masculine and feminine action nouns or...
8Proto-Indo-European-oss—
9Proto-Indo-European-osCreates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
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