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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin humiditātem.
Pronunciation
Noun
humidité f (plural humidités)
- humidity; moisture, wetness, dampness
Further reading
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)
- 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 that retains the property and disposition of excess humor