Etymology

infacility

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Today it means: The inability to quickly adjust one’s focus when looking from near to far (or the converse). Full definition →

English facility ← Middle English in- ← Latin in-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Englishfacility
  8. English todayinfacility

From in- + facility.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.