ineluctabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Latin ēlū̆ctor

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin ēlū̆ctābilis

Latin inēlū̆ctābilis

From in- (“un-, in-, not”) + ēlū̆ctābilis (“surmountable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.neː.ɫuːkˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs], [ɪ.neː.ɫʊkˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.ne.lukˈtaː.bi.lis]

Adjective

inēlū̆ctābilis (neuter inēlū̆ctābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Insurmountable.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	inēlū̆ctābilis	inēlū̆ctābile		inēlū̆ctābilēs	inēlū̆ctābilia
genitive	inēlū̆ctābilis			inēlū̆ctābilium
dative	inēlū̆ctābilī			inēlū̆ctābilibus
accusative	inēlū̆ctābilem	inēlū̆ctābile		inēlū̆ctābilīs inēlū̆ctābilēs	inēlū̆ctābilia
ablative	inēlū̆ctābilī			inēlū̆ctābilibus
vocative	inēlū̆ctābilis	inēlū̆ctābile		inēlū̆ctābilēs	inēlū̆ctābilia

Related terms

• ēlū̆ctor (“to surmount”)

Descendants

• → English: ineluctable
• → French: inéluctable
• → Italian: ineluttabile
• → Portuguese: inelutável

References

• “ineluctabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ineluctabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ineluctabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.