Where does “popularity” come from?

Popularity is an English formation from French -ité and Latin -itas, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European -it-, a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjective roots.

popularity (English): The quality or state of being popular;...

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being popular;...

Ancestry of “popularity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpopularCommon among the general public; generally...
2Middle EnglishpopulerCommonly known
3Old Frenchpopulaire
4Latinpopulārispopular (by, of or for the people)
5Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
6Latin-ālis
7Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “popularity

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis
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