The story
- Latin · derived frombonitās
- Old French · derived frombonté
- Anglo-Norman · derived frombounté
- Middle English · inherited frombounte“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”
- English todaybounty
From Middle English bounte (“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté (“goodness, kindness”)), from Latin bonitās.
Words from the same roots
Latinbonitās all →
imbonity
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.