Where does “unpossibility” come from?
unpossibility (English) comes from English possibility, from Middle English possibilite, from Middle French possibilité, from Old French possibilité, from Latin possibilitās, from Latin possibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
unpossibility (English): Impossibility
Definitions
- Impossibility
Ancestry of “unpossibility”, step by step
unpossibility traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English possibility
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | possibility | The quality of being possible; A thing possible;... |
| 2 | Middle English | possibilite | possibility; option |
| 3 | Middle French | possibilité | — |
| 4 | Old French | possibilité | possibility |
| 5 | Latin | possibilitās | possibility |
| 6 | Latin | possibilis | possible, that may exist, that may be done |
| 7 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |