Etymograph

English

causality

Causality comes from Latin; the Latin form is not named.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981causality

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981causality

Earliest quotation: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology: “But how do transformations like the evolution of language…”

Equivalent to causal + -ity

Latin causa ‘cause’

Late Latin causalis

English causal

Today it means

noun The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

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