Where does “immense” come from?

Immense comes from Middle French immense, from Latin immensus meaning "unmeasured," composed of the Latin prefix in- (not) and Latin mensus (measured).

immense (English): Huge, gigantic, very large; Supremely good;...

Definitions

  1. Huge, gigantic, very large; Supremely good;...

Ancestry of “immense”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchimmense—
2Latinimmensusimmeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense
3Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
4Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
5Old Latinenin
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “immense”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Proto-Italic en →Every word from Latin in- →
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