Etymology

outbalance

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Today it means: To have more influence or significance than another; to preponderate or outweigh. Full definition →

English balance ← Middle English balaunce ← Old French balance
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Latinbilanx
  8. Vulgar Latin*bilancia
  9. Old Frenchbalance
  10. Middle Englishbalaunce
  11. Englishbalance
  12. English todayoutbalance

From out- + balance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.