The story
- Latin · derived fromemolliēns
- French · borrowed fromémollient
- English todayemollient
From French émollient, from Latin emolliēns, present active participle of ēmolliō (“make soft”), from ex- + molliō, from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin moll- + -i- + -ent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.