Etymograph

English

inamissible

Inamissible comes from Latin inamissibilis ‘unlosable’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinamissibilis‘unlosable’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1651inamissible

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinamissibilis‘unlosable’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1651inamissible

Earliest quotation: 1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […]: “as this is irremediable and irrecoverable, so is the…”

Today it means

adj Incapable of being lost.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin inamissibilis / inamissible