English
permeability
Permeability comes from French perméabilité.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentperméabilité
- Englishearliest quotation 1997permeability
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentperméabilité
- Englishearliest quotation 1997permeability
Earliest quotation: 1997, Arthur L. Kohl, Richard B. Nielsen: “The sulfite cake is usually blended with fly ash…”
Formed from permeable + -ity
Proto-Indo-European *mey-o-
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Latin meō ‘to go along, pass or traverse’
Latin permeō ‘to pass through’
Latin permeābilis ‘passable’
Middle English permeable
English permeable
Every English word from French perméabilité
Today it means
noun The property of being permeable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French perméabilité / permeability