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Where does “ineluctable” come from?

Ineluctable comes from Middle French inéluctable, from Latin ineluctabilis, from the prefix in- added to eluctabilis, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

ineluctable (English): Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable,...

Definitions

  1. Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable,...

Ancestry of “ineluctable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchinéluctable—
2Latininēluctābilis—
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “ineluctable”

  • ineluctably
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →