attitude
AT-ih-tood · noun
Origin
Attitude comes from French attitude, borrowed from Italian attitudine, meaning aptness or fitness. That Italian word traces back to Medieval Latin aptitūdō and actitūdō, themselves rooted in the Latin verbs aptō (to fit) and actitō (to act repeatedly).
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Related words
Attitude is a doublet of aptitude — the two words descend from the same Medieval Latin source, aptitūdō, but arrived in English by different paths.