Etymology

inconvenient

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Today it means: not convenient Full definition →

Middle French inconvenient ← Latin inconvenientem
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frominconvenientem
  2. Middle French · borrowed frominconvenient
  3. English todayinconvenient

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.