Etymology

ancienty

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Today it means: age; antiquity Full definition →

Middle French ancienneté ← Old French ancienete
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromancienete
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromancienneté
  3. English todayancienty

Borrowed from Middle French ancienneté, from Old French ancienete, from ancien + -ete. See ancient.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.