Etymology

tenigue

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Today it means: A feeling of exhaustion resulting from doing something stressful (such as driving) for a long period of time without a break. Full definition →

English (fat)igue ← French fatigue ← Latin fatīgāre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ten-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tend-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*téndeti
  4. Proto-Italic*tendō
  5. Latintendō
  6. Latintēnsiō
  7. Middle Frenchtension
  8. Englishten(sion)
  9. Latinfatīgāre
  10. Frenchfatiguerdeverb.
  11. Frenchfatigue
  12. English(fat)igue
  13. English todaytenigue

Blend of ten(sion) + (fat)igue.

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