Where does “immensity” come from?
Immensity comes from Middle French immensité, meaning vastness or boundlessness.
immensity (English): The state or characteristic of being immense; An...
Definitions
- The state or characteristic of being immense; An...
Ancestry of “immensity”, step by step
immensity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English immense
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immense | Huge, gigantic, very large; Supremely good;... |
| 2 | Middle French | immense | — |
| 3 | Latin | immensus | immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense |
| 4 | Latin | in- | un-, non-, not; in, within, inside |
| 5 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle French immensité
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | immensité | — |