Where does “impervious” come from?
Impervious comes from Latin impervius, formed from the prefix in- and pervius, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European h₁én meaning "not."
impervious (English): Unaffected or unable to be affected by something;...
Definitions
- Unaffected or unable to be affected by something;...
Ancestry of “impervious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | impervius | impassable; impervious |
| 2 | Latin | pervius | Having a passage through; passable, traversable,... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |