The story
- Latin · derived frompropinquitās
- Middle French · derived frompropinquité
- Middle English · inherited frompropinquite
- English todaypropinquity
From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.