Etymology

minacity

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Today it means: Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten. Full definition →

Late Latin minacitas ← Latin minax
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromminax“threatening”
  2. Late Latin · borrowed fromminacitas
  3. English todayminacity

From Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -itas (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”).

Words from the same roots

Latinminax all →

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