Etymograph

English

improbity

Improbity comes from Latin improbitas ‘wickedness, dishonesty, improbity’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *əmproβwos.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*əmproβwosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprobus‘wicked, immoral, shameless’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprobitas‘wickedness, dishonesty, improbity’
  4. Englishtodayimprobity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*əmproβwosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprobus‘wicked, immoral, shameless’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprobitas‘wickedness, dishonesty, improbity’
  4. Englishtodayimprobity

Formed from in- + probity

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s ‘being in front’

Proto-Italic *proβos ‘favourable’

Latin probus ‘good, excellent, honest’

Latin probitās ‘uprightness, honesty’

Middle French probité

English probity

Every English word from Proto-Italic *əmproβwos

Today it means

noun A lack of probity or integrity; dishonesty.

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