Etymology

immensurable

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Today it means: unmeasurable, immeasurable; not able to be measured, therefore connoting extremely large Full definition →

Middle English immensurable ← Latin immēnsūrābilis
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  1. Latin · derived fromimmēnsūrābilis
  2. Middle English · inherited fromimmensurable
  3. English todayimmensurable

From Middle English immensurable, from Old French, from Latin immēnsūrābilis, from im- (“not”) (variant form of in-) + mēnsūra (“measure”) + -bilis (“able”).

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