Where does “inadmissible” come from?
Inadmissible comes from French inadmissible, formed from French in- (not) and Latin -ibilis (capable of being), derived from Latin ad- (toward) and Proto-Indo-European ád (to, toward).
inadmissible (English): Not admissible, especially that cannot be...
Definitions
- Not admissible, especially that cannot be...
Ancestry of “inadmissible”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | inadmissible | unacceptable, inadmissible |
| 2 | French | admissible | admissible, acceptable |
| 3 | French | admis | past participle of admettre; masculine plural of... |
| 4 | Romanian | admite | to admit; to allow, permit |
| 5 | French | admettre | to admit, to accept, to recognize |
| 6 | Old French | admettre | to admit |
| 7 | Latin | admittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | admitto | I let in, admit; I perpetrate, commit |
| 9 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |