Where does “inexécutable” come from?
inexécutable (French) comes from French exécutable, from French exécuter, from French exécution, from Latin exsecutio, from Latin exsequor, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
inexécutable (French): unenforceable; impracticable, unworkable
Definitions
- unenforceable; impracticable, unworkable
Ancestry of “inexécutable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | exécutable | executable |
| 2 | French | exécuter | to execute; to carry out; to execute; to comply |
| 3 | French | exécution | execution |
| 4 | Latin | exsecutio | performance, execution; indictment |
| 5 | Latin | exsequor | I follow to the end; follow after thoroughly,... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |