English
compatibility
Compatibility comes from Latin compatibilis ‘compatible, jointly tenable’, from patibilis ‘tolerable, endurable’, and ultimately from patior ‘to suffer’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatior‘to suffer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatibilis‘tolerable, endurable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompatibilis‘compatible, jointly tenable’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900compatibilitās
- Englishearliest quotation 2019compatibility
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatior‘to suffer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatibilis‘tolerable, endurable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompatibilis‘compatible, jointly tenable’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900compatibilitās
- Englishearliest quotation 2019compatibility
Earliest quotation: 2019, Ian Walmsley, Cleaning up: “One huge self-inflicted wound the industry is now suffering…”
Equivalent to compatible + -ity
Late Latin patior ‘to suffer’
Late Latin compator ‘to suffer with’
Medieval Latin compatibilis ‘in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which…’
Anglo-Norman compatible
Middle English compatible
English compatible
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pet-
compassionate, petal, fathom, 3 more
through Latin patior ‘to suffer’
Today it means
noun The state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or work together in combination without problems or conflict.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin patior / compatibility