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Where does “unity” come from?

Unity comes from Old French unité, from Latin unitas (state of being one), derived from the Latin suffix -itas, which itself developed from Latin -io and ultimately Proto-Indo-European óynos (one).

unity (English): Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided...

Definitions

  1. Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided...

Ancestry of “unity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishunite—

Words derived from “unity”

  • disunity
  • nonunity
  • antiunity
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