English
impacable
Impacable comes from Latin pacare ‘to quiet’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpacare‘to quiet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590impacable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpacare‘to quiet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590impacable
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, (please specify the book): “But those two other, which beside them stoode, Were…”
Linked words
through Latin pacare ‘to quiet’
Today it means
adj implacable (unable to be appeased)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pacare / impacable