Etymology

countability

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Today it means: The quality of being countable. Full definition →

English count ← Middle English counten ← Anglo-Norman counter
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinputus
  7. Latinputō
  8. Latincomputō
  9. Anglo-Normancounter
  10. Middle Englishcounten
  11. Englishcount
  12. English todaycountability

From count + -ability.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.