The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*delh₁-“to divide, split”
- Latin · derived fromcon-
- Ecclesiastical Latin · learned borrowing fromcondolēre
- English todaycondole
PIE word *ḱóm Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin condolēre, the present active infinitive of condoleō (“to feel severe pain, suffer greatly; to suffer with or feel another’s pain, condole”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several things) + doleō (“to suffer physical pain, hurt; to be sorry, grieve for, deplore, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)).
Words from the same roots
Latincon- all →
comfortcontemporarycollaborationcombineconquerconstellationconvoyconcentricconnotationconurbationcondescendconsiliencecoevalaccoutercon-consilientconstultcontourné
Proto-Indo-European*delh₁- all →
indolencedolour
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.