English
inexcusable
Inexcusable comes from Latin inexcusabilis, from excūsābilis ‘excusable’, and ultimately from causa ‘cause, reason’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcausa‘cause, reason’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcūsō‘to excuse’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcūsābilis‘excusable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinexcusabilis
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inexcusable
- Englishearliest quotation 2022inexcusable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcausa‘cause, reason’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcūsō‘to excuse’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcūsābilis‘excusable’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinexcusabilis
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inexcusable
- Englishearliest quotation 2022inexcusable
Earliest quotation: 2022, Philip Haigh, Network News: TPE under fire over "unacceptable" cancellatio: “It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of…”
Linked words
through Old Latin caussa
through Latin causa ‘cause, reason’
because, cause, chose, chest, accuse, accusation, syllabus, causal, causative, accusative, 23 more
through Latin excūsō ‘to excuse’
Today it means
adj not excusable
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin causa / inexcusable