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Where does “inexigível” come from?

inexigível (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese exigível, from Portuguese -ível, from Latin -ibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...

inexigível (Portuguese): unenforceable

Definitions

  1. unenforceable

Ancestry of “inexigível”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseexigívelrequired, needed
2Portuguese-ívelAlternative form of -ável, used with 2nd- and...
3Latin-ibilis-able; able or worthy to be
4Latin-bilis-ble
5Proto-Italic-ðlis—
6Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
7Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
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