Etymograph

English

injucundity

Injucundity comes from Latin iniūcunditās ‘unpleasantness’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiniūcunditāsas injucunditas‘unpleasantness’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1792injucundity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiniūcunditāsas injucunditas‘unpleasantness’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1792injucundity

Earliest quotation: 1792, Emanuel Swedenborg: “disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure…”

Formed from in- + not

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht ‘nothing’

Old English nāwiht ‘nothing’

Old English *nōht ‘nought, nothing’

Middle English nought

Middle English not ‘not’

English not

Every English word from Latin iniūcunditās

Today it means

noun The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.

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