intolerance

The story

1. Latin · derived fromintolerantia“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”
2. French · borrowed fromintolérance
3. English todayintolerance

Borrowed from French intolérance, itself from in- (“not”) + tolérance or borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”). By surface analysis, in- + tolerance.

First known use, by meaning

• from 1765 The state of being intolerant.
• from the 20th c. Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.