English
immobilise
Immobilise comes from French immobiliser ‘to immobilize’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentimmobiliser‘to immobilize’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962immobilise
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentimmobiliser‘to immobilize’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962immobilise
Earliest quotation: 1962, Talking of Trains: U.S. city to subsidise railroads?: “For the past three-and-half years the City of Philadelphia…”
Formed from immobile + -ise
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
…
Latin moveō ‘to move, stir, set in motion’
Latin mōbilis ‘movable’
Latin immōbilis ‘immobile, immovable’
Old French immobile
English immobile
Every English word from French immobiliser
Today it means
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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French immobiliser / immobilise