Etymograph

English

insanable

Insanable comes from Latin īnsānābilis ‘incurable’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsānābilis‘incurable’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1921insanable

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnsānābilis‘incurable’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1921insanable

Earliest quotation: 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation: “[…] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head…”

Formed from in- ‘not’ + sanable

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’

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Proto-Italic *sānos ‘healthy’

Latin sanus ‘sound, healthy’

Latin sanare ‘to heal’

Latin sanabilis ‘curable’

English sanable

Every English word from Latin īnsānābilis

Today it means

adj Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

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

Etymograph / Latin īnsānābilis / insanable

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