English
indifferency
Indifferency comes from Latin indifferentia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindifferentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603indifferency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindifferentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603indifferency
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “he was sometimes found in his house, bitterly scolding…”
Every English word from Latin indifferentia
Today it means
noun Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin indifferentia / indifferency