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
- tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept...
Ancestry of “tolerant”, step by step
Words derived from “tolerant”
- tolerantly
- thermotolerant
- psychrotolerant
- halotolerant
- aerotolerant
- nontolerant
- immunotolerant
- osmotolerant
- xerotolerant
- cryotolerant
- extremotolerant
- metallotolerant
- acidotolerant
- autotolerant
- barotolerant
- chaotolerant
- crosstolerant
- eurytolerant
- heterotolerant
- hypertolerant
- omnitolerant
- phototolerant
- piezotolerant
- pseudotolerant