The story
- Latin · derived fromtaedium“weariness, tedium”
- Late Latin · derived fromtaediōsus
- Old French · derived fromtedieus
- English todaytedious
English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).
Words from the same roots
Latintaedium all →
tediumtaedium vitae
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.