irremeabilis

Latin

Etymology

From in- (“not, un-”) +‎ remeō (“I return”) +‎ -bilis (“-able”). May be interpreted as in- + remeābilis, but the latter is attested significantly later than, and may well be a back-formation from, this prefixed adjective. (This is not altogether unlikely, considering that irremeābilis first features in one of the most famous passages of Vergil's Aeneid.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ir.re.meˈaː.bi.lis/, [ɪrːɛmeˈäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ir.re.meˈa.bi.lis/, [irːemeˈäːbilis]

Adjective

irremeābilis (neuter irremeābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. irremeable: admitting no return

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	irremeābilis	irremeābile		irremeābilēs	irremeābilia
Genitive	irremeābilis			irremeābilium
Dative	irremeābilī			irremeābilibus
Accusative	irremeābilem	irremeābile		irremeābilēs irremeābilīs	irremeābilia
Ablative	irremeābilī			irremeābilibus
Vocative	irremeābilis	irremeābile		irremeābilēs	irremeābilia

Derived terms

• irremeābiliter

Descendants

• → English: irremeable

References

• “irremeabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irremeabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.