English
tolerance
Tolerance comes from Latin tolerantia ‘endurance’, and goes back to tolerō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerō‘to endure’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerāns‘bearing, enduring, tolerating, tolerant’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerantia‘endurance’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tolerance
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500toleraunce
- Englishearliest quotation 2019tolerance
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerō‘to endure’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerāns‘bearing, enduring, tolerating, tolerant’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerantia‘endurance’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tolerance
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500toleraunce
- Englishearliest quotation 2019tolerance
Earliest quotation: 2019, Dmitry Shumsky, When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy: “Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ‘to bear, carry’
talent, atlas, toll, tellurium, extol, 21 more
through Latin tolerō ‘to endure’
Today it means
noun The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tolerō / tolerance