The story
- Latin · derived fromlassitūdō“faintness, weariness”
- French · borrowed fromlassitude
- English todaylassitude
Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.
Words from the same roots
Latinlassitūdō all →
lassitudinous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.