Etymograph

English

multeity

Multeity comes from Latin multus ‘much, many’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmultus1‘much, many’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1821multeity1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English multeity
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversations: “When the whole and the parts are seen at…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmultusWiktionary, English multeity‘much, many’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1821multeityWiktionary, English multeity. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversations: “When the whole and the parts are seen at…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *mel- ‘good, big’

mole, amelia, dulcimer, 27 more

through Latin multus ‘much, many’

multiple, multitude, mucho, muy, multifarious, 8 more

Today it means

noun manifoldness; multiplicity; the quality of being many.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “multeity”. 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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