Where does “unemployment” come from?
Unemployment derives from English employ, Middle French employer, and Latin implicare meaning "to enfold or involve," with the suffix -mentum denoting a state or condition.
unemployment (English): The state of having no job; joblessness; The...
Definitions
- The state of having no job; joblessness; The...
Ancestry of “unemployment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | employment | The work or occupation for which one is used, and... |
| 2 | English | employ | The state of being an employee; employment; The... |
| 3 | French | emploi | job; employment; use; need |
| 4 | French | employer | to employ |
| 5 | Middle French | employer | to employ; to use; to make use of |
| 6 | Old French | emploier | Alternative form of emploiier |
| 7 | Latin | implicō | to entangle, entwine |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |