Old French humilité adapts Latin humilitās with the Romance noun ending represented as -ité.
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humilité
quality of one who is humble; abasement before God
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLate Latin · Ecclesiastical Latin · virtue opposed pridehumilitās
lowness in a positive moral sense; humility opposed to pride
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The ecclesiastical virtue and abasement senses continue in French.
CNRTL reports a later-tenth-century French record.
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Humility — American Heritage DictionaryOld French, from Late Latin humilitās
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Humilité — étymologie et histoireEmprunt au latin humilitas; later 10th-century humilitiet
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