Where does “nonfatality” come from?
nonfatality (English) comes from English fatality, from French fatalité, from Latin fatalitas, from Latin fatalis, from Latin fātum, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr — to speak, to be talking.
nonfatality (English): An incident that is not a fatality
Definitions
- An incident that is not a fatality
Ancestry of “nonfatality”, step by step
nonfatality traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English fatality
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fatality | The state proceeding from destiny; invincible... |
| 2 | French | fatalité | fatality |
| 3 | Latin | fatalitas | — |
| 4 | Latin | fatalis | of fate, destined, predestined; fatal, deadly |
| 5 | Latin | fātum | destiny, fate, lot |
| 6 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 7 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |