promptitude

From Middle French, from Late Latin promptitudo, from Latin promptus.

promptitude (usually uncountable, plural promptitudes)

1. The quality of being prompt; alacrity.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18,

     Small wonder then that the Indomitable's Captain, though in general a man of rapid decision, felt that circumspectness not less than promptitude was necessary.

• (quality of being prompt): promptness

Borrowed from Late Latin promptitūdo.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ̃p.ti.tyd/

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• Rhymes: -yd

promptitude f (uncountable)

1. promptitude

• “promptitude” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).