Where does “inflexibilité” come from?
inflexibilité (French) comes from French flexibilité, from Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flexibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
inflexibilité (French): inflexibility
Definitions
- inflexibility
Ancestry of “inflexibilité”, step by step
inflexibilité traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French flexibilité
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | flexibilité | flexibility; flexibleness |
| 2 | Latin | flexibilitās | flexibility |
| 3 | Latin | flexibilis | flexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,... |
| 4 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |
via French inflexible
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | inflexible | inflexible |
| 2 | French | in- | in-; un- |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 4 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Old French inflectibilité
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | inflectibilité | — |