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Evidence comes from Middle English evidence, via Old French, from Latin evidentia ‘clearness, proof’, from evidens ‘clear, evident’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEevidens¹‘clear, evident’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEevidentia¹‘clearness; proof’
3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500evidence¹
4. Englishearliest quotation 1748evidence¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English evidence
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1748, David Hume, Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding: “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are…”.