Where does “tolerant” come from?

Tolerant comes from Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans (present participle of tolero, meaning "to bear or endure"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European telh₂-.

tolerant (English): tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept...

Definitions

  1. tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept...

Ancestry of “tolerant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtoléranttolerant; present participle of tolérer
2Old Frenchtolerant
3Latintolerānsbearing, enduring, tolerating, tolerant

Words derived from “tolerant

Every word from Latin tolerānsEvery word from Old French tolerantEvery word from French tolérant
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