irremeabilis
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- (“not, un-”) + remeō (“I return”) + -bilis (“-able”). May be interpreted as in- + remeābilis, but the latter is attested significantly later than, and may well be a back-formation from, this prefixed adjective. (This is not altogether unlikely, considering that irremeābilis first features in one of the most famous passages of Vergil's Aeneid.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ir.re.meˈaː.bi.lis/, [ɪrːɛmeˈäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ir.re.meˈa.bi.lis/, [irːemeˈäːbilis]
Adjective
[edit]irremeābilis (neuter irremeābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- irremeable: admitting no return
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | irremeābilis | irremeābile | irremeābilēs | irremeābilia | |
Genitive | irremeābilis | irremeābilium | |||
Dative | irremeābilī | irremeābilibus | |||
Accusative | irremeābilem | irremeābile | irremeābilēs irremeābilīs |
irremeābilia | |
Ablative | irremeābilī | irremeābilibus | |||
Vocative | irremeābilis | irremeābile | irremeābilēs | irremeābilia |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: irremeable
References
[edit]- “irremeabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irremeabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.