Probability
late Middle English: from Latin probabilitas, from probabilis ‘provable, credible’ (see probable).
wiktionary
From Middle French probabilité, from Latin probābilitās(“probability, credibility”), from probābilis(“probable, credible”).
etymonline
probability (n.)
mid-15c., probabilite, "likelihood of being realized, appearance of truth, quality of being probable," from Old French probabilite (14c.) and directly from Latin probabilitatem (nominative probabilitas) "credibility, probability," from probabilis (see probable).
Meaning "something likely to be true" is from 1570s; mathematical sense is from 1718, "frequency with which a proposition similar to the one in question is found true in the course of experience."
In weather forecasting, probabilities was used in U.S. from 1869 and adopted in the official weather forecasts of the United States Signal Service; hence Old Probabilities, a humorous name for the chief signal officer of the Signal Service Bureau (by 1875).
