Etymograph

English

invulnerability

Invulnerability comes from French vulnérabilité ‘vulnerability’, from Latin vulnerō ‘to wound’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *welanos.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*welanosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvulnus‘wound, injury’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvulnerō‘to wound’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEvulnerābilis‘injurious, wounding, vulnerable’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentvulnérable
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presentvulnérabilité‘vulnerability’
  7. French, derivedc. 1600–presentinvulnérabilité
  8. Englishtodayinvulnerability

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*welanosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvulnus‘wound, injury’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvulnerō‘to wound’
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEvulnerābilis‘injurious, wounding, vulnerable’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentvulnérable
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presentvulnérabilité‘vulnerability’
  7. French, derivedc. 1600–presentinvulnérabilité
  8. Englishtodayinvulnerability

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- ‘to hit’

pull, convulsive, convulsion, 21 more

through Late Latin vulnerābilis ‘injurious, wounding, vulnerable’

vulnerable, 1 more

Today it means

noun The state of being invulnerable.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *welanos / invulnerability

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