Etymology Dictionary

TOLERATE,  to bear, endure, put up with.  (L.)   'To tollerate those thinges;' Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, b. iii. c. 14, § 4.—Lat. toleratus, pp. of tolerare, to endure; allied to tollere, to lift, bear.—✔TAR, TAL, to lift, bear; cf. Skt. tul, to lift, Gk. τλῆναι, to suffer, A.S. þolian, to endure, L. latus, pp. (for tlatus*).   See Thole (2).   Der. tolera-ble, from F. tolerable, 'tollerable,' Cot., from Lat. tolerabilis, that can be endured; toler-abl-y, toler-able-ness; toler-at-ion, from F. toleration, omitted by Cotgrave, but in use in the 16th cent. (Littré), from Lat. acc. tolerationem, endurance; toler-ance, from F. tolerance, 'tolleration, sufferance,' Cot., from Lat. tolerantia, suffrance; toler-ant, from the stem of the pres. part. of tolerare.   From the same root are a-tlas, tal-ent, ex-tol; e-late, col-late, di-late, ob-late, pre-late, pro-late, re-late, trans-late, legis-late, ab-lat-ive, super-lat-ive.