Etymograph

English

inextinguible

Inextinguible comes from Latin inextinguibilis ‘unquenchable, inextinguishable’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinextinguibilis‘unquenchable, inextinguishable’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inextinguible
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1624same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinextinguibilis‘unquenchable, inextinguishable’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600inextinguible
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1624same form

Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “Cornelius Drible [hath made] a perpetual motion, inextinguible lights,…”

Every English word from Latin inextinguibilis

Today it means

adj Inextinguishable.

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Etymograph / Latin inextinguibilis / inextinguible

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