вменяемость

Russian edit

Etymology edit

From вменя́емый (vmenjájemyj) +‎ -ость (-ostʹ), calque of French imputabilité coined at the end of the 18th century by Stepan Rumovsky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [vmʲɪˈnʲæ(j)ɪməsʲtʲ]

Noun edit

вменя́емость (vmenjájemostʹf inan (genitive вменя́емости, uncountable)

  1. sanity, imputability

Declension edit

References edit

  • Shansky, N. M., editor (1968), “вменяемость”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 3 (В), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 119
  • Arapova, N. S. (2000) “вменяемость”, in Kalʹki v russkom jazyke poslepetrovskovo perioda. Opyt slovarja [Calques in Post-Petrine Russian. An Essay of a Dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 67