innumerabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *nem-

Proto-Italic *nomezos

Latin numerus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin numerō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin numerābilis

Latin innumerābilis

From in- + numerābilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.nʊ.mɛˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.nu.meˈraː.bi.lis]

Adjective

innumerābilis (neuter innumerābile, adverb innumerābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. innumerable, countless
   • 1829, Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst, “Caput I. Historia culturae Ichneumonidum.”, in Ichneumonologia europaea., volume 1, page IX:

     Hic autem natura in operibus suis permultiplex est, nunc secundum leges constantes et intra limites definitos creans et fingens, nunc in varietatibus innumerabilibus, sensim sensimique immutatis et una in alteram transeuntibus, quasi legibus solutis circumvagans.

     Here, however, nature is very manifold in its works, now creating and fashioning according to constant laws and within defined limits, now wandering around in innumerable varieties, gradually and very gradually changing and passing one into another, rambling around as if without laws.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	innumerābilis	innumerābile		innumerābilēs	innumerābilia
genitive	innumerābilis			innumerābilium
dative	innumerābilī			innumerābilibus
accusative	innumerābilem	innumerābile		innumerābilīs innumerābilēs	innumerābilia
ablative	innumerābilī			innumerābilibus
vocative	innumerābilis	innumerābile		innumerābilēs	innumerābilia

Derived terms

• innumerābilitās

Descendants

• → Catalan: innumerable
• → Galician: innumerable
• → Italian: innumerabile, innumerevole
• → Occitan: innumerable
• → Portuguese: inumerável
• → Spanish: innumerable

References

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