innavigable
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English
Etymology
From Latin innāvigābilis.[1] By surface analysis, in- + navigable.
Adjective
innavigable (comparative more innavigable, superlative most innavigable)
- Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships etc.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, page 368, lines 204–205:
- If you ſo hard a Toil will undertake, / As twice to paſs th’ innavigable Lake; […]
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References
- “innavigable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “innavigable, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
Noun
innavigable f (plural innavigables)
Further reading
- “innavigable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.