Where does “unconfinable” come from?
unconfinable (English) comes from English confinable, from English confine, from Middle French confiner, from Middle French confins, from Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin confinis, from Latin cōn- — resin.
unconfinable (English): That cannot be confined
Definitions
- That cannot be confined
Ancestry of “unconfinable”, step by step
unconfinable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English confinable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | confinable | Able to be confined |
| 2 | English | confine | To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or... |
| 3 | Middle French | confiner | — |
| 4 | Middle French | confins | — |
| 5 | Latin | confines | nominative masculine plural of cōnfīnis;... |
| 6 | Latin | confinium | confine; border; limit |
| 7 | Latin | confinis | bordering on, adjoining, contiguous |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |