The story
- Latin · derived frominaequālis“unequal”
- Medieval Latin · derived frominaequālitās
- Old French · derived frominequalité
- Middle English · inherited frominequalite
- English todayinequality
From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequālis (“equal”). Morphologically inequal + -ity and in- + equality.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.