English
permanence
Permanence comes from Latin permaneō ‘to remain’, and goes back to maneō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmaneō‘I remain’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpermaneō‘to remain’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500permanentia
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600permanence
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1923same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmaneō‘I remain’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpermaneō‘to remain’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500permanentia
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600permanence
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1923same form
Earliest quotation: 1923, Mme. X. pseudonym, News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full D: “To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to stay, stand still’
music, money, mind, amount, mouth, mountain, comment, museum, mental, mention, auto, mount, min, monitor, monster, demonstration, monetary, monk, mint, mentor, monument, monte, maya, dementia, muse, mosaic, summon, ming, monastery, amnesty, mont, monstrous, imminent, muster, eminent, mandarin, menace, amnesia, mantra, monastic, 120 more
through Latin maneō ‘I remain’
remain, mas, remnant, menial, menagerie, ménage, manet, 9 more
Today it means
noun The state of being permanent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin maneō / permanence