humidité

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humiditātem.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /y.mi.di.te/

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Noun

humidité f (plural humidités)

1. humidity; moisture, wetness, dampness

Further reading

• “humidité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Attested at least as early as 1377, borrowed from Latin humiditās.

Noun

humidité oblique singular, f (oblique plural humiditez, nominative singular humidité, nominative plural humiditez)

1. moistness; dampness; humidity
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 186 of this essay:

     Sextement, tu dois entendre que la cause prochaine de le lepre, c’est humidité causee de humeur melancolique qui retient proprieté et disposicion de humeur qui habunde.

     Sixthly, you must understand that the next cause of leprosy is moistness caused by melancholic humor [bodily fluids] that retains the property and disposition of excess humor