English
immanity
Immanity comes from Latin immānitās ‘immensity, vastness, excess’, and goes back to immānis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmānis‘immense, enormous, huge, vast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmānitās‘immensity, vastness, excess’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591immanity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmānis‘immense, enormous, huge, vast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmānitās‘immensity, vastness, excess’
- Englishearliest quotation 1591immanity
Earliest quotation: 1591, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Sixt: “[…] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious…”
Every English word from Latin immānis
Today it means
noun Great size; enormousness, hugeness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin immānis / immanity