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Humiliation — étymologie et histoire

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2026
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CNRS · Université de Lorraine
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Humiliation is evidenced in English before humiliate.

Chaucer’s Middle English humiliacioun occurs in a humility passage; Merriam-Webster reports the English verb humiliate only circa 1534. Christian Latin and French preserve lowering, abasement, mortification, and self-humbling before current definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.

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*dhg̑hem- → *dhghem- → *(dh)ghom-o- → humus → humilis → humiliāre → humiliātus → humiliātiō → humiliation → humiliacioun → humiliation

Christian Latin meanings and historical French senses

Documents the older humbling and abasement semantic field.

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Did humiliation always center disgrace and shame?

No. Christian Latin and historical French include lowering, abasement, mortifying discipline, and self-humbling. Chaucer’s Middle English occurrence appears within a treatment of humility, while current American Heritage definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.

Christian Latin meanings and French records before 1449 and in 1495

Publishes lowering, abasement, mortification, hostile humbling, and self-humbling senses.

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humiliation → humiliātiō

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Middle French humiliation continues Christian Latin humiliātiō within Romance phonology and spelling.
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Lowering, abasement, subduing, and self-humbling remain available in the medieval French record.
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Borrowed from Christian Latin humiliatio; French records before 1449 and in 1495

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humiliātiō → humiliātus

Late Latin → Late Latin · derivation

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Late Latin humiliātiō is formed on humiliātus with the Latin action-noun ending -iō.
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The made-low participial stem becomes an action, process, or condition noun for lowering and humbling.
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Christian Latin humiliatio: lowering, abasement, and humbling through mortification

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virtue noun in the parallel humilitas branch from humilis

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