English
density
Density may come from Middle French densité.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600densitéuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2007density
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600densitéuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2007density
Earliest quotation: 2007, Lisa Akbari, Every Woman's Guide to Beautiful Hair at Any Age: “Density, which is genetically linked, deals with the number…”
Formed from dense + -ity
Proto-Indo-European *dens- ‘thick, dense’
Latin dēnsus ‘dense, compact’
Middle French dense
English dense
Every English word from Middle French densité
Today it means
noun A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French densité / density