Etymology

cardinally

C3A1R1D2I1N1A1L1L1Y4

Today it means: In a cardinal manner; fundamentally. Full definition →

English cardinal ← Middle French cardina ← Latin cardinālis
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latincardinālis
  2. Middle Frenchcardina
  3. Englishcardinal
  4. English todaycardinally

From cardinal + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.