interminable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French interminable, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  interminabilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ).mɪn.ə.bəl/

Adjective

interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)

1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:

     After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.

Translations

existing or occurring without interruption or end

• Bulgarian: безкраен (bg) (bezkraen)
• Catalan: interminable (ca)
• Finnish: loputon (fi), keskeytymätön, loppumaton (fi)
• Japanese: 止められない (ja) (yamerarenai)
• Portuguese: interminável (pt)
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• Romanian: interminabil (ro)
• Russian: бесконе́чный (ru) (beskonéčnyj), беспредельный (ru) (bespredelʹnyj)
• Spanish: interminable

Noun

interminable (plural interminables)

1. (mathematics, dated) A repeating decimal.

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Catalan

Adjective

interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

1. interminable, unending

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +‎ terminer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.nabl/

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Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

1. unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending

Further reading

• “interminable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Adjective

interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

1. unending, interminable

Related terms

• terminar