## Etymology
From Old French comunalte ('community, commonalty'), from comunal ('common'), from Latin communalis, from communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office').

## AI Etymology
Commonalty comes from Old French comunalte ('community, commonalty'), from comunal ('common'), from Latin communalis, from communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office'). The historical trail runs through comunalte in Old French and communis in Latin. Morphologically, commonalty is transparent: it draws on Old French comunalte ('community, commonalty'), from comunal ('common'), from Latin communalis, from communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, office'). Used as a noun, commonalty now means "the common people as distinct from the nobility", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as common, commonality, and commonwealth. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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