English
annihilable
Annihilable comes from Latin annihilō ‘to bring to nothing, annihilate, obliterate,…’, and goes back to hīlum ‘the least bit’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhīlum‘the least bit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnihil‘nothing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannihilō‘to bring to nothing, annihilate, obliterate, destroy utterly, benothing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannihilābilis
- Englishearliest quotation 1733annihilable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhīlum‘the least bit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEnihil‘nothing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannihilō‘to bring to nothing, annihilate, obliterate, destroy utterly, benothing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEannihilābilis
- Englishearliest quotation 1733annihilable
Earliest quotation: 1733, Isaac Watts, London: […] Richard Ford […]: “[Space] cannot be a created Subſtance; becauſe vve cannot…”
Formed from annihilate + -able
Latin hīlum ‘the least bit’
Latin nihil ‘nothing’
Latin annihilō ‘to reduce to nothing’
Latin annihilātus ‘destroyed’
English annihilate
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom
through Latin fīlum ‘thread’
file, filament, fillet, 45 more
through Latin nihil ‘nothing’
Today it means
adj Capable of being annihilated; able to be destroyed completely.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin hīlum / annihilable