Where does “impure” come from?
Impure comes from Middle French impur, from Latin impurus, composed of the Latin prefix in- (from Latin in, from Proto-Indo-European ne) and Latin purus meaning pure.
impure (English): Not pure; to defile; to pollute
Definitions
- Not pure; to defile; to pollute
Ancestry of “impure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | impur | — |
| 2 | Latin | impurus | unclean, filthy, foul, dirty; impure, defiled,... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “impure”