Etymology

spirituality

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Today it means: The quality or state of being spiritual. Full definition →

Middle French spiritualité ← Late Latin spīrituālitās ← Latin spīritālis
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  2. Latinspīrō
  3. Latinspīritus
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  6. Latinspīritālis
  7. Late Latinspīrituālitās
  8. Middle Frenchspiritualité
  9. English todayspirituality

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.