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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—
3Latintolerāns—

Words derived from “tolerant”

  • tolerantly
  • thermotolerant
  • psychrotolerant
  • halotolerant
  • aerotolerant
  • nontolerant
  • immunotolerant
  • osmotolerant
  • xerotolerant
  • cryotolerant
  • polyextremotolerant
  • extremotolerant
  • metallotolerant
Every word from Latin tolerāns →