Etymology Explorer › English

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

  1. Impossibility

Ancestry of “unpossibility”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpossibilityThe quality of being possible; A thing possible;...
2Middle Englishpossibilitepossibility; option
3Middle Frenchpossibilité—
4Old Frenchpossibilitépossibility
5Latinpossibilitās—
6Latinpossibilispossible, that may exist, that may be done
7Latin-bilis-ble
8Proto-Italic-ðlis—
9Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
10Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom →