English
mutility
Mutility comes from Late Latin mutilitās ‘an imperfection, a defect’, and goes back to Latin mutilus ‘mutilated’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmutilus‘mutilated’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmutilitās‘an imperfection, a defect’
- Englishearliest quotation 1910mutility
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmutilus‘mutilated’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmutilitās‘an imperfection, a defect’
- Englishearliest quotation 1910mutility
Earliest quotation: 1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and: “Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into…”
Linked words
through Latin mutilus ‘mutilated’
Today it means
noun deformity, defectivity
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mutilus / mutility