English
mansuetude
Mansuetude may come from Middle French mansuetude.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600mansuetudeuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1647same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600mansuetudeuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1647same form
Earliest quotation: 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption: “That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing;…”
A compound of manus ‘hand’ + suēscō ‘become accustomed’
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- ‘to beckon’
Proto-Italic *manus ‘hand’
Latin manus ‘hand’
Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁-sḱ-e-ti
Latin suēscō ‘become accustomed’
Linked words
through Latin mansuētus ‘tamed, tame’
Today it means
noun Gentleness, tameness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French mansuetude / mansuetude