The story
- Latin · derived fromūtilitās
- Old French · derived fromutilite
- Middle English · inherited fromutilite
- English todayutility
From Middle English utilite, from Old French utilite, utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ūtilitās, from uti (“to use”). By surface analysis, utile + -ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.