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Where does “unimageable” come from?

unimageable (English) comes from English imageable, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im- — in.

unimageable (English): Not imageable

Definitions

  1. Not imageable

Ancestry of “unimageable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishimageableCapable of being imaged
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →