Where does “profitability” come from?
Profitability derives from English profitable plus the suffix -ity, tracing through French -ité, Latin -itas and -abilis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -it-.
profitability (English): The quality or state of being profitable;...
Definitions
- The quality or state of being profitable;...
Ancestry of “profitability”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | profitable | Producing a profit |
| 2 | Old French | profitable | useful; usable; that one can make use of |
| 3 | Old French | able | able; capable |
| 4 | Latin | habilis | able to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient... |
| 5 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “profitability”