Etymograph

English

inapprehensible

Inapprehensible may come from Late Latin inapprehensibilis.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinapprehensibilisuncertain
  2. Englishtodayinapprehensible

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinapprehensibilisuncertain
  2. Englishtodayinapprehensible

Formed from in- + apprehensible

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

The story

Either from the Late Latin inapprehensibilis or formed in English as in- + apprehensible.

Today it means

adj That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.

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

Etymograph / Late Latin inapprehensibilis / inapprehensible