English
immensive
Immensive comes from Middle French immensif.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600immensif
- Englishearliest quotation 1648immensive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600immensif
- Englishearliest quotation 1648immensive
Earliest quotation: 1648, Robert Herrick, To the King: “Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines…”
Equivalent to immense + -ive
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
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Latin mensus ‘measured’
Latin immensus ‘immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense’
Old French immense
Middle English immens
English immense
Every English word from Middle French immensif
Today it means
adj Synonym of immense.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French immensif / immensive