The story
- Latin · derived fromimmūnis“exempt from public service”
- English todaymune
Formed under the implication that the word immune was formed in modern English with the prefix im- and another word. The word immune was actually formed from a prefix in Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).
Words from the same roots
Latinimmūnis all →
immune
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.