English
amability
Amability comes from Latin amabilitas ‘loveliness, amiableness’, and goes back to amō ‘to love’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamō‘to love’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamābilis‘lovely, amiable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamabilitas‘loveliness, amiableness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657amability
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamō‘to love’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamābilis‘lovely, amiable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEamabilitas‘loveliness, amiableness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1657amability
Earliest quotation: 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature: “every excellency is a degree of amability”.
Linked words
through Latin amō ‘to love’
enemy, amour, amicable, enmity, amity, amenity, inimical, 19 more
Today it means
noun lovableness
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin amō / amability