Where does “inflammable” come from?

inflammable (French) comes from Latin inflammabilis — inflammable.

inflammable (French): flammable, inflammable

Definitions

  1. flammable, inflammable

Ancestry of “inflammable”, step by step

inflammable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin inflammabilis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latininflammabilisinflammable

via French inflammer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchinflammer

Words derived from “inflammable

Every word from Latin inflammabilis