Where does “immutability” come from?
Immutability comes from Middle French immutabilité, from Latin immutabilitas (quality of being unchanging), formed from Latin in- (not) and mutabilis (changeable), with -tas forming abstract nouns, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots ne (not) and mew- (to change).
immutability (English): The state or quality of being immutable;...
Definitions
- The state or quality of being immutable;...
Ancestry of “immutability”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | immutabilité | — |
| 2 | Latin | immutabilitas | unchangeableness, immutability |
| 3 | Latin | immūtābilis | immutable, unchangeable, unalterable |
| 4 | Latin | mutabilis | mutable, changeable, inconstant |
| 5 | Latin | muto | I move, remove; I alter, change, modify,... |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |