Where does “impenetrabilidade” come from?
impenetrabilidade (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese impenetrável, from Latin impenetrabilis, from Latin penetrabilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
impenetrabilidade (Portuguese): impenetrability quality, state of being impenetrable
Definitions
- impenetrability quality, state of being impenetrable
Ancestry of “impenetrabilidade”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | impenetrável | impenetrable |
| 2 | Latin | impenetrabilis | impenetrable; unconquerable, unyielding |
| 3 | Latin | penetrabilis | penetrable; piercing |
| 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;... |