The story
- Latin · derived fromfortis
- Late Latin · derived fromfortificatio, fortificationem
- Middle French · borrowed fromfortification
- English todayfortification
Borrowed from Middle French fortification, from Late Latin fortificatio, fortificationem, from fortifico, from Latin fortis. By surface analysis, fort + -ification.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.