Etymology

impressionably

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Today it means: In an impressionable manner. Full definition →

English impressionable ← French impressionnable ← Latin impressiōnem
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*per-?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pres-
  7. Proto-Italic*pres-
  8. Latinpremō
  9. Latinimprimō
  10. Latinimpressiōnem
  11. Frenchimpression
  12. Frenchimpressionner
  13. Frenchimpressionnable
  14. Englishimpressionable
  15. English todayimpressionably

From impressionable + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.