The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromimportantia
- Middle French · derived fromimportance
- Middle English · inherited fromimportaunce
- English todayimportance
From Middle English importaunce, from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) + -ance.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinimportantia all →
importancy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.