The story
- Latin · derived fromcommūnitās“community; public spirit”
- Old French · derived fromcommunité
- Middle English · inherited fromcommunite
- English todaycommunity
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity. Displaced native Old English ġemǣnsċipe. Doublet of communitas.
Words from the same roots
Latincommūnitās all →
commonaltycommunitas
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.