Etymograph

English

indisputable

Indisputable comes from Latin indisputābilis, from disputo ‘to estimate or compute’, and ultimately from putus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEputus
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEputō‘to clean, cleanse’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisputo‘to estimate or compute’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisputābilis
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEindisputābilis
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1674indisputable

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEputus
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEputō‘to clean, cleanse’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisputo‘to estimate or compute’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdisputābilis
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEindisputābilis
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1674indisputable

Earliest quotation: 1674, Richard Allestree, Of Positiveness: “Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […]…”

Equivalent to in- + disputable

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin putus

Latin putō ‘to clean, cleanse’

Latin disputo ‘to estimate or compute’

Latin disputābilis

English disputable

Linked words

through Latin putus

counter, discount, countable, puta, 10 more

through Latin putō ‘to clean, cleanse’

account, count, imp, compute, computation, amputation, putative, amputee, repute, raconteur, amputate, imputation, depute, 12 more

through Latin disputo ‘to estimate or compute’

dispute, disputation, 3 more

Today it means

adj Not disputable; not open to question; obviously true

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

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