Where does “neflexibil” come from?
neflexibil (Romanian) comes from Romanian flexibil, from French flexible, 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;...
neflexibil (Romanian): inflexible
Definitions
- inflexible
Ancestry of “neflexibil”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | flexibil | flexible |
| 2 | French | flexible | flexible |
| 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;... |