English
toleration
Toleration comes from Latin tolerō ‘to tolerate’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerō‘to tolerate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerātiōnem
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600toleration
- Englishearliest quotation 2012toleration
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerō‘to tolerate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolerātiōnem
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600toleration
- Englishearliest quotation 2012toleration
Earliest quotation: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: “Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ‘to bear, carry’
talent, toll, atlas, tellurium, extol, 21 more
through Latin tolerō ‘to tolerate’
Today it means
noun Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tolerō / toleration