The story
- Latin · derived fromflectō“to bend, curve”
- Late Latin · derived fromflexibilitās
- French · derived fromflexibilité
- English todayflexibility
From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“to bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.