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Where does “ineluctably” come from?

Ineluctably comes from Middle French inéluctable, which combines Latin in- (not) with a root from Latin ex (out), ultimately deriving from the prefix ex-.

ineluctably (English): In an ineluctable manner

Definitions

  1. In an ineluctable manner

Ancestry of “ineluctably”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishineluctableImpossible to avoid or escape; inescapable,...
2Middle Frenchinéluctable—
3Latininēluctābilis—
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →