importune · verb1
- Latin · derived fromimportūnus“unfit, troublesome”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromimportūnor“to make oneself troublesome”
- Middle French · borrowed fromimportuner
- English todayimportune
From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor".
importune · adjective, noun2
- Classical Latin · derived fromimportūnus
- Anglo-Norman and Middle French · derived fromimportun
- Middle English · inherited fromimportune, inportune
- English todayimportune
From Middle English importune, inportune, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French importun and its etymon Classical Latin importūnus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.