Where does “inflexível” come from?
inflexível (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese flexível, 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;...
inflexível (Portuguese): inflexible; unbending
Definitions
- inflexible; unbending
Ancestry of “inflexível”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | flexível | flexible; supple, pliable; pliant |
| 2 | Latin | flexibilis | flexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,... |
| 3 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |