indolence

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*delh₁-“to divide, split”
2. Latin · derived fromindolentia“freedom from pain; insensibility”
3. Middle French · borrowed fromindolence
4. English todayindolence

Borrowed from Middle French indolence, or from its etymon Latin indolentia (“freedom from pain; insensibility”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + dolēns (“hurting, suffering; grieving, lamenting”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Dolēns is the present participle of doleō (“to hurt, suffer; to be sorry, deplore, grieve for, lament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”).

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