The story
- Latin · derived fromaptō
- Medieval Latin · derived fromaptitūdō“aptitude”
- Italian · derived fromattitudine“attitude, aptness”
- French · borrowed fromattitude
- English todayattitude
From French attitude, from Italian attitudine (“attitude, aptness”), from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. Doublet of aptitude.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinaptitūdō all →
aptitude
Latinaptō all →
artillery
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.