Where does “uncatchably” come from?
uncatchably (English) comes from English uncatchable, from English catchable, from English catch, from Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
uncatchably (English): In an uncatchable way
Definitions
- In an uncatchable way
Ancestry of “uncatchably”, step by step
uncatchably traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English uncatchable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | uncatchable | Not catchable; that cannot be caught |
| 2 | English | catchable | That can be caught |
| 3 | English | catch | The act of seizing or capturing; The act of... |
| 4 | Middle English | cacchen | to catch |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 7 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 8 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 9 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |