Etymograph

English

intolerance

Intolerance comes from French intolérance.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentintolérance
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1921intolerance

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentintolérance
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1921intolerance

Earliest quotation: 1921, Ben Travers, Garden City: “By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been…”

Equivalent to in- + tolerance

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin tolerō ‘to endure’

Latin tolerāns ‘bearing, enduring, tolerating, tolerant’

Latin tolerantia ‘endurance’

Old French tolerance

Middle English toleraunce

English tolerance

Linked words

through Latin tolerāns ‘bearing, enduring, tolerating, tolerant’

tolerant, 1 more

Today it means

noun The state of being intolerant.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / French intolérance / intolerance

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