Etymograph

English

imbonity

Imbonity comes from Latin bonitās ‘goodness’, from bonus ‘good, honest, kind’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to fit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dewh₂-1‘to fit’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenos1‘good’reconstructed
  3. Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenos1
  4. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduonus1
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonus1‘good, honest, kind’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonitās2‘goodness’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1621imbonity2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin bonitas
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English imbonity
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1621, Robert Burton: “All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dewh₂-Wiktionary, Latin bonitas‘to fit’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenosWiktionary, Latin bonitas‘good’reconstructed
  3. Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenosWiktionary, Latin bonitas
  4. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduonusWiktionary, Latin bonitas
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonusWiktionary, Latin bonitas‘good, honest, kind’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonitāsWiktionary, English imbonity‘goodness’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1621imbonityWiktionary, English imbonity. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1621, Robert Burton: “All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonities, insuavities are swallowed…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to fit’

down, town, tool, teen, dynamic, tow, dynasty, dun, dynamo, dynastic, tine, taw, beaucoup, beauteous, 90 more

through Proto-Italic *dwenos ‘good’

beautiful, beauty, rebellion, boo, beau, rebellious, bello, rebelling, benefice, bauble, 35 more

through Archaic Latin duenos

ben, beneficial, rebel, beneficiary, revel, bene, bellicose, 36 more

through Latin bonus ‘good, honest, kind’

bonus, optimal, optimism, bonnie, boon, bona, bonny, bonbon, 13 more

Today it means

noun Lack of goodness.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “imbonity”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin bonitas. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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