ineffabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti

Proto-Italic *fāōr

Latin for

Latin effor

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin effābilis

Latin ineffābilis

From in- (“not”) + effābilis (“utterable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.nɛfˈfaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.nefˈfaː.bi.lis]

Adjective

ineffābilis (neuter ineffābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. unutterable, unpronounceable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	ineffābilis	ineffābile		ineffābilēs	ineffābilia
genitive	ineffābilis			ineffābilium
dative	ineffābilī			ineffābilibus
accusative	ineffābilem	ineffābile		ineffābilīs ineffābilēs	ineffābilia
ablative	ineffābilī			ineffābilibus
vocative	ineffābilis	ineffābile		ineffābilēs	ineffābilia

Derived terms

• ineffābilitās
• ineffābiliter

Descendants

• → English: ineffable
• → French: ineffable
• → Italian: ineffabile
• → Portuguese: inefável
• → Spanish: inefable
• → Romanian: inefabil

References

• “ineffabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ineffabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.