English
idoneity
Idoneity comes from Medieval Latin idōneitās ‘usefulness, fitness’, and goes back to Latin idōneus ‘suitable’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEidōneus‘suitable’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500idōneitās‘usefulness, fitness’
- Englishtodayidoneity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEidōneus‘suitable’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500idōneitās‘usefulness, fitness’
- Englishtodayidoneity
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
bar, birth, prefer, broad, bread, burden, bearing, barrel, fortune, barn, bore, fury, breeze, bark, baron, berth, broom, barrow, embargo, fret, ferret, insufferable, furtive, bier, bahar, proffer, birr, barrette, bairn, burnish, 112 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti ‘to bear, carry’
bear, borne, phosphate, phosphorus, euphoria, dysphoria, semaphore, indifferently, phosphine, 90 more
through Proto-Italic *ferō ‘to carry, bear’
suffering, differently, indifferent, differentiation, deference, infertility, infertile, differentially, deferential, differentiable, differentiator, 67 more
through Latin ferō ‘to bear, carry, bring’
different, offer, difference, reference, transfer, relative, suffer, translation, relate, relation, differ, referendum, translate, referee, fertile, fertility, defer, infer, confer, elated, fertilization, fertilize, elation, collation, dilate, collate, efferent, oblate, 78 more
through Latin auferō ‘to take away’
through Latin ablātīvus
frustration, strangely, frustrate, infra, strangeness, ablative, estrange, 1 more
through Latin extrā ‘beyond’
Today it means
noun The state or quality of being idoneous.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin idōneus / idoneity