Where does “liberality” come from?
Liberality comes from Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin liberalitas, formed from the adjective liberalis (from lewbʰ-, meaning to care or be willing) plus the suffix -tas denoting a state or quality.
liberality (English): The property of being liberal; generosity;...
Definitions
- The property of being liberal; generosity;...
Ancestry of “liberality”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | liberalite | — |
| 2 | Old French | liberalité | — |
| 3 | Latin | liberalitas | frankness, affability; generosity, liberality |
| 4 | Latin | līberālis | — |
| 5 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 7 | French | lober | to lob |
| 8 | French | lob | lob |
| 9 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 10 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 11 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 12 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 13 | Latin | longitūdō | — |
| 14 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 15 | Latin | -ē | — |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |