interminable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French interminable, from Late Latin interminabilis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)
- Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:
- After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
- The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
Translations edit
existing or occurring without interruption or end
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Noun edit
interminable (plural interminables)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin interminābilis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)
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Further reading edit
- “interminable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “interminable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “interminable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “interminable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- + terminer + -able.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
interminable (plural interminables)
Further reading edit
- “interminable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)
- interminable
- Synonym: inacabable
- unending
- Synonym: infinito
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Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “interminable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014