Where does “facilité” come from?
facilité (Middle French) comes from Latin facilitās, from French facilité, from Latin facilitatem, from Latin facilitas, from Latin facul, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
Ancestry of “facilité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | facilitās | ease, easiness, facility, readiness |
| 2 | French | facilité | ease, easiness; past participle of faciliter;... |
| 3 | Latin | facilitatem | accusative singular of facilitās |
| 4 | Latin | facilitas | ease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness;... |
| 5 | Latin | facul | easily |
| 6 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |