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word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of ability" href="/word/ability#etymonline_v_40">ability<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<i class="fa fa-image" style="margin-left:5px;color:#888"></i><span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div style="float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-top:5px;height:85px;width:90px;overflow:hidden"><a title="Origin and meaning of ability" href="/word/ability?utm_source=related_entries#etymonline_v_40"><img style="max-width:80px" src="https://cdn.etymonline.com/chart/crop/etymology-ability-40p_l.jpg" alt="Origin and meaning of ability"/></a></div><p>late 14c., "state or condition of being able; capacity to do or act," from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">ableté</span> "ability (to inherit)," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">habilitatem</span> (nominative <span class="foreign notranslate">habilitas</span>, in Medieval Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">abilitas</span>) "aptitude, ability," noun of quality from <span class="foreign notranslate">habilis</span> "easy to manage, handy" (see <a href="/word/able" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of able " class="crossreference notranslate">able</a>). One case where a Latin silent <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> failed to make a return in English (despite efforts of 16c.-17c. scholars); see <a href="/word/H" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of H " class="crossreference notranslate">H</a>. Also in Middle English, "suitableness, fitness." <span class="foreign notranslate">Abilities</span> "one's talents or mental endowments" is from 1580s.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of H" href="/word/H#etymonline_v_1350">H<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>eighth letter of the alphabet; it comes from Phoenician, via Greek and Latin. In Phoenician it originally had a rough guttural sound like German <span class="foreign notranslate">Reich</span> or Scottish <span class="foreign notranslate">loch</span>. In Greek at first it had the value of Modern English <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span>, and with this value it passed into the Latin alphabet via Greek colonies in Italy. Subsequently in Greek it came to be used for a long "e" sound; the "h" sound being indicated by a fragment of the letter, which later was reduced to the aspiration mark.</p> <p>In Germanic it was used for the voiceless breath sound when at the beginning of words, and in the middle or at the end of words for the rough guttural sound, which later came to be written <span class="foreign notranslate">-gh</span>.</p> <p>The sound became totally silent in Vulgar Latin and in the languages that emerged from it; thus the letter was omitted in Old French and Italian, but it was restored pedantically in French and Middle English spelling, and often later in English pronunciation.</p> <p>Thus Modern English has words ultimately from Latin with missing <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> (<a href="/word/able" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of able " class="crossreference notranslate">able</a>, from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">habile</span>); with a silent <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> (<a href="/word/heir" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of heir " class="crossreference notranslate">heir</a>, <a href="/word/hour" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of hour " class="crossreference notranslate">hour</a>); with a formerly silent <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> now often vocalized (<a href="/word/humble" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of humble " class="crossreference notranslate">humble</a>, <a href="/word/humor" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of humor " class="crossreference notranslate">humor</a>, <a href="/word/horizon" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of horizon " class="crossreference notranslate">horizon</a>, <a href="/word/herb" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of herb " class="crossreference notranslate">herb</a>); and even a few with an unetymological <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> fitted in confusion to words that never had one (<a href="/word/hostage" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of hostage " class="crossreference notranslate">hostage</a>, <a href="/word/hermit" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of hermit " class="crossreference notranslate">hermit</a>). Relics of the formerly unvoiced <span class="foreign notranslate">-h-</span> persist in pedantic insistence on <span class="foreign notranslate">an historical (object)</span> and in obsolete <span class="foreign notranslate">mine host</span>.</p> <p>The pronunciation "aitch" was in Old French (<span class="foreign notranslate">ache</span> "name of the letter H"), and is from a presumed Late Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">*accha</span> (compare Italian <span class="foreign notranslate">effe</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">elle</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">emme</span>), with the central sound approximating the rough, guttural value of the letter in Germanic. In earlier Latin the letter was called <span class="foreign notranslate">ha</span>. The use in digraphs (as in <span class="foreign notranslate">-sh-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-th-</span>) goes back to the ancient Greek alphabet, which used it in <span class="foreign notranslate">-ph-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-th-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-kh-</span> until <span class="foreign notranslate">-H-</span> took on the value of a long "e" and the digraphs acquired their own characters. The letter passed into Roman use before this evolution, and thus retained there more of its original Semitic value.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of hability">Trends of <i>hability</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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(harmofroditus), from Latin hermaphroditus, from Greek hermaphroditos "person partaking of the attributes of both sexes," as a proper name, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who, in Ovid, was loved by the nymph Salmacis so ardently that she prayed for complete union with</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of shenanigan" href="/word/shenanigan"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">shenanigan<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"nonsense; deceit, humbug," 1855, American English slang, of uncertain origin. Earliest records of it are in California (San Francisco and Sacramento). 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